Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Virginia broker goes green: first ‘carbon neutral footprint’
Sep 25 2006 // Rutherfoord, a Roanoke, Va., insurance broker, says it is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and has become the first in the U.S. insurance industry to establish a carbon neutral footprint in response to...
Quanta Sells Environmental Business to WSP Group
Sep 19 2006 // Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. announced that it has completed the sale of Environmental Strategies Consulting LLC (ESC) to WSP Environmental Holdings, Inc., a division of the U.K.-based management and consulting firm WSP...
Feds Hit Over Ground Zero Workers’ Health Problems
Sep 12 2006 // Lawmakers said federal officials failed to protect ground zero workers as they clambered over the smoking pile of toxic debris and have not properly cared for them in the years since. In a daylong House hearing last...
Berkley Launches Specialty Division for Environmental Contractors
Sep 12 2006 // W. R. Berkley Corporation announced that Berkley Specialty Underwriting Managers LLC has formed a new division that will offer specialty insurance products for environmental contractors, consultants and site specific...
Specialized Care Network Found to Reduce Workers’ Comp Costs
Sep 12 2006 // In workers’ compensation cases, management of injured workers by a specialized network of health care providers—without third-party utilization review—can reduce missed work days and lower health care costs,...
BISYS Acquires JCH Insurance Brokers
Sep 8 2006 // BISYS Commercial Insurance Services, a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance solutions, today announced its acquisition of JCH Environmental Insurance Brokers, the environmental practice of JCH Insurance...
Five Seek to Define N.Y. Attorney General Role After Spitzer
Sep 5 2006 // Democrat Eliot Spitzer has tackled illegal trading on Wall Street and fraudulent deals in the insurance industry and sued the federal government to force environmental protections in his nearly eight years as attorney...
Va. Insurance Broker’s Big Step: First ‘Carbon Neutral Footprint’
Sep 5 2006 // Rutherfoord, a Roanoke, Va. insurance broker, says it is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and has become the first in the U.S. insurance industry to establish a carbon neutral footprint in response to the...
Del. Residents Evacuated Near Chemical Tanker Return Home
Aug 28 2006 // Residents living near a railroad tanker car that released a hazardous chemical, sickening 23 people, have been allowed to return home, officials said. An evacuation notice for 44 homes had been issued Saturday morning...
Par for the course: golf club premiums
Aug 21 2006 // Golf and country clubs are complex risks that make it difficult for agents and brokers to know how premium dollars should be allocated. That task is even more difficult because each club is different. Private clubs are...
Par for the course: golf club premiums
Aug 21 2006 // Golf and country clubs are complex risks that make it difficult for agents and brokers to know how premium dollars should be allocated. That task is even more difficult because each club is different. Private clubs are...
Guy Carpenter Report Examines Impact of Nanotechnology
Aug 16 2006 // Guy Carpenter & Company, the risk and reinsurance specialist of Marsh & McLennan Companies, announced the publication of “Nanotechnology: The Plastics of the 21st Century?” The study provides “a...
N.Y. Attorney General Candidates Make Their Cases
Aug 16 2006 // The five N.Y. candidates running for state attorney general will get their first chance to introduce themselves to a large number of voters in a statewide town hall meeting and debate this week. “Right now it means...
Cyber storms
Aug 7 2006 // As reports of computer security breaches proliferate–such as the federal government’s snafu that put millions of veterans at risk for identity theft–the public is losing confidence in the digital...
‘Mom & Pop’ dry cleaning market hangs on environmental issues
Aug 7 2006 // While franchises and large company mergers have changed the landscape of businesses across the United States, the “Mom and Pop” structure of most dry cleaning facilities continues to be successful. With...
Editor’s Note: Cyber storms
Aug 7 2006 // As reports of computer security breaches proliferate—such as the federal government’s snafu that put millions of veterans at risk for identity theft—the public is losing confidence in the digital...
‘Mom & Pop’ dry cleaning market hangs on environmental issues
Aug 7 2006 // While franchises and large company mergers have changed the landscape of businesses across the United States, the “Mom and Pop” structure of most dry cleaning facilities continues to be successful. With...
Mich. Burns & Wilcox Adds New Director of Branch Development
Aug 4 2006 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent Burns & Wilcox, has hired Paul Anderson, CPCU, ARM, AIM, to serve as the company’s director of branch...
The virtual, global economy humbles insurance leaders
Jul 24 2006 // Insurance professionals have a lot to worry about as the fast-paced virtual economy takes hold. According to futurist Edie Weiner, they are right to be worried. She says there are a lot of risks ahead and given the speed...
Take the pollution out of the D&O policy
Jul 24 2006 // Is your directors and officers policy polluted? Shareholders and environmental groups are taking a closer look at the environmental disclosures made by public companies. The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report...
