Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
LIU Creates D&O Coverage to Protect Against Global Warming Litigation
Jul 31 2008 // Liberty International Underwriters, a part of Liberty Mutual Group, has created Private Advantage Company Combo policy to provide broad private company management coverage for directors and officers, employment practices...
New Day Underwriting Promotes Slivka and Farrell
Jul 29 2008 // Bordentown, New Jersey-based New Day Underwriting Managers has promoted Jeffrey Slivka to executive vice president and Timothy Farrell to senior vice president of sales. Slivka, who previously served as senior vice...
Irwin Siegel Offers New Coverages to Fill Gaps in Social Service Programs
Jul 23 2008 // Rock Hill, N.Y.-based Irwin Siegel Agency Inc. (ISA) now offers new coverage options to help fill gaps social service organizations face in their current insurance policies. These additional coverage enhancements include...
Rockhill Insurance Purchases National Environmental Coverage Corp.
Jul 8 2008 // Rockhill Insurance Company announced its recent acquisition of National Environmental Coverage Corporation (NECC), a company that underwrites environmental insurance coverage. The Rockhill Group is a Kansas City-based...
PartnerOne Offers 4 New Environmental Insurance Products
Jul 8 2008 // PartnerOne Environmental — Beacon Hill Associates’ underwriting division — has partnered with ACE Westchester to offer four new environmental insurance products for agents pursuing environmental...
Sustainability Risks Create Challenges for Actuaries
Jul 8 2008 // Sustainability risks are one of the most critical emerging risk areas of the 21st century and actuaries will need to develop mitigation and financing strategies for handling them. “Sustainability risks are going to...
People
Jul 7 2008 // Richmond, Va.-based insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. promoted F. Michael Crowley to president and chief operating officer. As president, Crowley has been responsible for HRH’s retail operations. In the...
California Considering Pay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance
Jul 7 2008 // Price at the Gas Pump Spurring Assembly Bill, DOI Regulation California’s Department of Insurance as well as state legislators are considering bringing pay-as-you-drive automobile insurance to the state, a system in...
West Virginia Suit Seeks Damages from Builder, Subcontractors
Jun 26 2008 // Ten current and former homeowners in a Charles Town, W.Va. subdivision are suing a builder and subcontractors, claiming the company failed to install functional radon removal systems. In one instance, the homeowners...
Everest Opens Up Distribution of its Environmental Insurance Products
Jun 26 2008 // Everest Indemnity Insurance Co., a U.S. insurance subsidiary of Everest Re Group, Ltd., said it will now offer its environmental insurance products directly to the wholesale and retail markets. Formerly these products were...
XL Insurance Adds New Green Building Product
Jun 19 2008 // XL Insurance (“XLI”), the global insurance operations of XL Capital Ltd (NYSE:XL) , launched a new green building product to encourage customers who experience a property loss to rebuild using resource...
Insurance Companies Face Global Warming Claims
Jun 16 2008 // Corporations Exposed to Liability for Greenhouse Gas Emissions The industry is about to enter an era of global warming insurance claims. Scientists have been warning about the impact global warming could have if greenhouse...
AIG Offers Pollution Liability Insurance for Contractors
Jun 10 2008 // AIG Small Business, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance, announced the availability of contractors pollution liability (CPL) insurance designed specifically for the needs of contractors with revenues under $10...
Atlanta Insurer Increases Environmental Surety Bond Limits
Jun 4 2008 // Atlanta-based American Safety Insurance Services Inc. increased its environmental surety bond limits to $5 million single and $10 million aggregate with no collateral requirements. ASI’s environmental surety bond...
Univeristy of Idaho Officials Want to Start Mine Safety Instruction
Jun 4 2008 // The University of Idaho, seeing a resurgence of mining activity in northern Idaho due to soaring metal prices, is seeking federal funding to bring back mining education programs, a school official said. “The metals...
Johnson Joins Aon Environmental Risks
Jun 4 2008 // Aon announced that environmental insurance specialist Simon Johnson, Ph.D., has joined the firm as director in the Aon Environmental Services Group, a unit of Aon Risk Services. He will be based in London, and will...
Willis Risk Manager Conference Examines Brazil, China Energy Sector
Jun 4 2008 // Willis recently hosted a conference of senior risk managers from the US oil and gas industry at its inaugural Global Risk Challenge seminar in Houston. They concentrated on finding out more about some of the major...
Insurance Companies Face Global Warming Claims
Jun 2 2008 // Corporations exposed to liability for greenhouse gas emissions The industry is about to enter an era of global warming insurance claims. Scientists have been warning about the impact global warming could have if greenhouse...
Environmental Group Recognizes Fireman’s Fund’s Green Efforts
May 22 2008 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. is one of five firms recognized by the Environmental Defense Fund and Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for having contributed to the “green” movement. EDF’s recent...
Damages Mount – again – In Storm-battered South Central States
May 19 2008 // Storms have caused more than $3 billion in damages this year, insurance group says As the town of Picher, Okla., began to climb out of the wreckage of the deadly tornadoes that swept across Southeastern Oklahoma, Missouri...
