Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
The Hartford Reports Q3 Earnings
Sep 30 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. today estimated its 2004 third quarter earnings per fully diluted share at between $0.85 and $0.95. This estimated range assumes no net realized capital gains or losses or unusual...
Pa. Holds the Line on Storage Tank Fees
Sep 29 2004 // Following a 10 percent increase in fees last year, the Underground Storage Tank Indemnification Fund (USTIF) Board has unanimously agreed to maintain fees for owners of underground storage tanks licensed in Pennsylvania...
Contractors Program
Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Victor O. Schinnerer & Company’s contractors program recently released new 2004 editions of its three policy forms: a stand-alone professional liability policy, a stand-alone pollution...
Contractors Program
Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Victor O. Schinnerer & Company’s contractors program recently released new 2004 editions of its three policy forms: a stand-alone professional liability policy, a stand-alone pollution...
