Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACE USA Unveils Online Platform for Contractors Pollution Liability Coverage
Mar 1 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced that its ACE Environmental Risk unit has launched a web-based underwriting facility that enables brokers to access Contractors...
Ind. Jury Says PSI Not Entitled to Insurance Recovery
Feb 24 2005 // A Hendricks County (Indiana) jury returned a verdict this week finding that Cinergy Corp. subsidiary PSI Energy Inc. was not entitled to any insurance recovery from its London Market Insurers for the costs incurred as a...
Allstate, AIG, Chubb, St. Paul/Travelers Ask Pa. Commissioner to Examine ACE Brandywine Sale
Feb 21 2005 // The law firm representing Allstate Insurance Company, American International Group Inc., Chubb & Son, and St. Paul Travelers has filed a demand, addressed to Diane Koken head of the Pennsylvania Department of...
Some California Doctors Leaving Workers’ Comp System
Feb 21 2005 // Francis Pecoraro is trading a San Francisco Bay area medical practice that mainly serves injured workers for one in Wilmington, N.C., that he believes will be friendlier to doctors and doctors’ families. Pecoraro,...
Kyoto Protocol Comes into Force; Debate on Global Warming Continues
Feb 17 2005 // The “Kyoto Protocol” or Treaty, a global agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses, has come into force seven years after it was established. So far 141 countries, accounting for 55 percent of greenhouse...
Some California Doctors Leaving Workers’ Comp System
Feb 8 2005 // Francis Pecoraro is trading a San Francisco Bay area medical practice that mainly serves injured workers for one in Wilmington, N.C., that he believes will be friendlier to doctors and doctors’ families. Pecoraro,...
General Liability
Feb 7 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: AIG Environmental, a division of the property/casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group Inc. (AIG), enhanced its environmental and general liability exposures program,...
Insurers Agree to $93M Settlement over Hazardous Waste Site in California
Feb 4 2005 // California has won a $93 million settlement with 16 insurance companies over cleanup costs at a notorious hazardous waste site. Lloyd’s of London, one of the state’s major insurers, will pay $49 million of the...
HHS Secretary Must Divest Holdings in Leavitt Group
Feb 3 2005 // To avoid any conflict of interest in his new job at U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt will divest more than $5 million of stock in his family’s insurance business. The Leavitt...
ACE USA’s Environmental Coverage Logs Online; New Site Provides Product, Claims Reporting Information
Jan 24 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced that its ACE Environmental Risk unit has introduced the capability for on-line product and claims reporting information via its new...
Environmental
Jan 24 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: AIG Environmental said it has enhanced its environmental and general liability exposures program, aka “EAGLE.” The expanded product portfolio features new coverages to provide commercial...
Ky. College Professors Latest to Claim Health Effects From Mold Contamination
Jan 17 2005 // College professors in Kentucky have joined the ranks of Americans claiming to suffer from the health effects of mold contamination. Faculty, including two nursing lab faculty members, at Mayville Community College...
Calif. City Sues Attorney for Failure to Have Insurers Clean-up Town’s Pollution
Jan 12 2005 // The city of Lodi, California, announced it’s suing the attorney responsible for a plan to clean up the town’s soil and water which instead left residents with millions in legal fees and groundwater that is...
Best, S&P Announce Rating Actions on ACE Ltd. and Subs after Reserve Increase
Jan 7 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services came down a bit harder on ACE Limited’s ratings than A.M. Best following the announcement that the company would increase its reserves for asbestos and environmental...
Arson Suspected in Fires in Posh Md. Subdivision; FBI Also Looking into Possible Ecoterrorism
Dec 8 2004 // Investigators suspect arson in at least four of the fires that destroyed a dozen homes and burned several others in Indian Head, a posh Maryland subdivision under construction near a nature preserve, and the FBI said it...
AIG Environmental Enhances Its Environmental and General Liability Exposures (EAGLE) Program
Dec 8 2004 // AIG Environmental, a division of the property/casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group Inc. (AIG), has announced the enhancement of its Environmental and General Liability Exposures (EAGLE) Program....
N.Y.’S LOVE CANAL OFF SUPERFUND LIST:
Oct 25 2004 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its decision to remove the Love Canal site in Niagara County, New York from the Superfund National Priorities List. All cleanup work at the site has been completed,...
Emerging Risk Evaluation Critical to Urban Insurers
Oct 21 2004 // Insurers doing business in urban areas should adopt a loss prevention program that looks at emerging risks and new risk management techniques, recommends the Chicago-based Urban Insurance Partners Institute, an urban and...
EPA Removes N.Y.’s Love Canal from Superfund List
Oct 12 2004 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its decision to remove the Love Canal site in Niagara County, New York from the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). All cleanup work at the site has been...
Supreme Court Debates Pollution Lawsuits
Oct 12 2004 // The Supreme Court considered last week whether companies that voluntarily seek to clean up their polluted land can sue former owners to get help with the costs. The case could have important ramifications for communities...
