Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AIG Names Executives for New Commercial Insurance Group
Apr 11 2008 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has named several executives to positions within its new AIG Commercial Insurance Group, formerly known as the Domestic Brokerage Group. AIG Commercial Insurance is part of the...
Update: Tennessee Residents Try to Recover after Oil Well Explosion
Apr 8 2008 // Tennessee resident, Irene Daugherty, is home but still shaken after an oil well explosion just 60 yards from her front door melted the siding on her manufactured home and transformed the landscape into charred stumps and...
Willis Publishes Marketplace Analysis
Apr 7 2008 // Willis Group Holding announced the release of the Spring 2008 edition of its series “Marketplace Realities and Risk Management Solutions.” The articles focus on important developments in Environmental, Surety,...
Insurers Could Pay Up to $730 Million for Cleanup
Apr 7 2008 // Nine insurance companies should cover the costs assessed to the former Appleton Papers Inc. for cleanup of the industrial chemical PCBs in the Lower Fox River, a jury recently decided. After a five-week trial, the jury...
U.S. Criticizes Chinese Insurers, Other Firms for Avoiding Competition
Apr 4 2008 // Influential Chinese companies that want to avoid competition are the biggest threat to more economic reform in China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday. Paulson’s comment echoed complaints by...
ACE China Partner to Offer Pollution Coverage
Mar 31 2008 // The ACE Group of Companies announced that Huatai Insurance Company of China Limited, an ACE Group strategic partner, has received approval from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to become one of the first...
Update: Tennessee Oil Well Fire Doused, Residents Asked to Stay Away
Mar 27 2008 // A nearly week-old oil well fire in Anderson County, Tenn. was extinguished Tuesday, but officials worried about the danger of lingering natural gas vapors asked residents to stay away. A spokeswoman for the Environmental...
Feds Say Tennessee Failed to Give Timely Notice on Oil Well Fire
Mar 24 2008 // A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official has told Anderson County residents that Tennessee officials did not inform them of an oil well fire in a timely manner. The well near Oliver Springs struck a huge pocket of...
California Tahoe Fire Commission Wants Federal Aid
Mar 24 2008 // A commission created after a Lake Tahoe blaze destroyed more than 250 California homes voted unanimously to seek state and federal emergency declarations to combat what it says is an imminent threat of catastrophic...
Virginia Landfill Now One of Nation’s Most Hazardous Sites
Mar 21 2008 // A Loudoun County, Virginia landfill blamed for contaminating drinking wells is being added to a federal registry of the nation’s most hazardous sites. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added the Hidden Lane...
New Jerseyans Protest Designation of Superfund Site
Mar 21 2008 // Officials in Gibbsboro, New Jersey are protesting the designation of a federal Superfund environmental site. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the designation for 60 acres that center on a former...
Insurers Could Pay Up to $730 Million to Cover Costs of PCB Cleanup in Wis.
Mar 19 2008 // Nine insurance companies should cover the costs assessed to the former Appleton Papers Inc. for cleanup of the industrial chemical PCBs in the Lower Fox River, a jury decided Monday. After a five-week trial, the jury took...
ACE Europe Launches Private Finance Initiative
Mar 12 2008 // ACE has announced the launch of ACE PFI (Private Finance Initiative), which it describes as a “fully integrated insurance solution providing comprehensive cover and risk management advice for all aspects of a PFI...
Cleanliness is Key to Preventing Hot Tub Claims
Mar 10 2008 // Proper risk management includes daily inspections, regular cleaning, usage policies and water tests Hot tub operators are reporting an increasing number of “hot tub rash” claims from people using their...
Seattle Court Rules Failure to Disclose Pollution Incidents Voids Vessel Policy
Mar 10 2008 // The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle has upheld an Alaskan district court ruling that a primary insurance carrier can cancel a marine vessel’s pollution insurance policy on the basis that the insured...
Nanotechnology: A Big Risk in a Small Package?
Mar 10 2008 // Nanotechnology presents great opportunity, but the impact on insurance is still unknown Insurance professionals gathered in the oak-paneled Old Library of Lloyd’s of London this past December to learn more about a...
CDC Official: Reaction to Formaldehyde in Emergency Trailers Too Slow
Mar 6 2008 // The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reacted sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in government-issued trailers housing thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims, a CDC official told a...
Lexington Insurance Adds Eco-Friendly Building Coverage
Mar 3 2008 // Lexington Insurance Co. has begun offering commercial property insurance that will replace customers’ damaged buildings and property with green-friendly products. The coverage, called Upgrade to Green, is designed to...
W. Va. Judge Upholds $196M Award against DuPont
Feb 27 2008 // A circuit judge in West Virginia has upheld a $196.2 million punitive damages award against DuPont in a class-action pollution case. Harrison County Circuit Court Chief Judge Thomas A. Bedell also ordered the Wilmington,...
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Feb 24 2008 // BMS, a reinsurance intermediary based in Philadelphia, has appointed James T. Buysse as chief executive officer of its North American operations, BMS Intermediaries Inc. Buysse has 25 years of experience in the reinsurance...
