Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pet food case raises product recall, ‘special’ property, new coverage issues
May 7 2007 // While the manufacturer of the contaminated multi-brand pet foods that have caused an unknown number of pet deaths and illnesses wants to put the controversy behind it, the pet food maker along with insurers, lawyers and...
Pet food case raises product recall, ‘special property,’ new coverage issues
May 7 2007 // While the manufacturer of the contaminated multi-brand pet foods that have caused an unknown number of pet deaths and illnesses wants to put the controversy behind it, the pet food maker along with insurers, lawyers and...
Tainted Pet Food Linked to Indiana Chickens; No Recall Yet
May 2 2007 // Chicken feed in some farms in Indiana contained byproducts from pet food manufactured with contaminated wheat gluten imported from China, two federal agencies said Monday. The Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug...
ACE Europe Offers Online Environmental Cover
Apr 30 2007 // ACE European Group announced from its London office that its Commercial Premises Pollution Liability (PPL) product is available online via its fully automated e-commerce platform – ACE Online. ACE said it is...
R&M ‘Carbon Finance’ Analysis Praised as ‘Timely’
Apr 19 2007 // Dublin-based market analysts Research and Markets notes that the firm’s recently released report, “Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change,” has received praise from industry...
People
Apr 9 2007 // Veteran Chicago financial services executive Michael Fisher has been appointed director of new market development by Country Insurance & Financial Services and will manage its newly created Chicago district office....
Zurich’s Patton Joins EPA Advisory Board
Mar 29 2007 // Lindene E. Patton, senior vice president and counsel in Zurich North America Commercial’s environmental group, has been selected to serve as a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental...
1,200 MISS. HOMES DEMOLISHED
Mar 26 2007 // The federal Environmental Protection Agency has approved more flexible rules that will mean about 1,200 hurricane-damaged homes in south Mississippi can be torn down. The EPA’s No Action Assurance program runs until...
EPA Allows Demolition of 1,200 Hurricane-Damaged Homes in Miss.
Mar 15 2007 // About 1,200 hurricane-damaged homes in south Mississippi can be torn down under rules that have been extended by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA’s No Action Assurance program runs until Sept. 30 for...
Insurance exec: China offers lessons in globalization for U.S. and world
Mar 12 2007 // C.V. Starr’s Greenberg on China’s economic revolution and making the world safer through globalization I am not going to talk about regulation, not yet. I will soon but it will not be today — real soon. I...
Insurance exec: China offers lessons in globalization for U.S. and world
Mar 12 2007 // I am not going to talk about regulation, not yet. I will soon but it will not be today — real soon. I cannot wait.” Thus Maurice “Hank” Greenberg — target of Eliot Spitzer, prosecutors,...
Congressman’s Widow Urges Senate to Ban Asbestos
Mar 5 2007 // The widow of a congressman who died from asbestos-related cancer has urged Congress to pass legislation that would ban the substance. Sue Vento told a Senate panel last week about the battle waged by her late husband,...
AIG Environmental to Offer Property Insurance
Feb 20 2007 // AIG Environmental, a division of the property and casualty subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), introduced AIG Environmental Property, an insurance facility designed to enable AIG Environmental to...
Case Law Watch
Jan 29 2007 // Additional Insureds Alpha Holdings Ltd. v. Travelers Indemnity (California Court of Appeals, Second District, July 13, 2006) Ruling: This case involved a declaratory judgment action on insurance coverage under a...
FERMA Urges Members to Develop Environmental Liability Products
Jan 29 2007 // Warning that “European businesses face uninsurable environmental impairment risks,” the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) called on insurers to be less “risk averse.” It...
Liberty Mutual Fellowship Backs Workplace Safety Research
Jan 26 2007 // The Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group recently donated $30,000 to the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Foundation in continuation of its commitment to occupational safety and health research through the support...
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Environmental Cleanup Costs
Jan 26 2007 // The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to tackle an environmental case that could clarify when companies which have incurred industrial cleanup costs can seek to force the government or other companies to share the...
N.Y. Assemblyman Grannis in Line to Be State Environmental Commissioner
Jan 25 2007 // New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has nominated long-time insurance legislative leader Alexander B. “Pete” Grannis to serve as Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation. Grannis was first...
Feds Arrive in Kentucky to Investigate Hazardous Chemical Rail Fire
Jan 18 2007 // Federal agents will spend the rest of the week near Brooks, Kentucky investigating what caused a train carrying hazardous chemicals to derail and catch fire, forcing nearby residents to evacuate their homes. The chemical...
Markel Offers New ‘Follow Form Excess’ Product
Jan 15 2007 // Markel Underwriting Managers, Inc.’s (MUM) Environmental Division has released a new excess product. The Follow Form Excess product (FFE) will be considered when writing over accounts where MUM’s Environmental...
