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Nov 2 2008 // Tonya I. Sylvester has been named a sales executive at Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency Inc. of Massachusetts. Sylvester will specialize in personal lines sales, and work out of the agency’s Canton and Plymouth...

Nov 2 2008 // Aon Consulting announced that Mark Arian has joined the firm as executive vice president and leader of the Aon Consulting Corporate Transactions group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. Arian and his team will be...

Pennsylvania Insurance Dept to Hold Climate Change Conference

Oct 30 2008 // Insurance leaders, policymakers, financial and scientific experts will meet in Harrisburg next week to discuss how climate change will impact many segments of business and industry, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel...

California State Compensation Insurance Fund Opens Green Campus

Oct 29 2008 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has opened a new green campus in Vacaville, Calif. The group said in a demonstration of its ongoing commitment to ensuring the health of California’s communities...

FEMA Trailers in Iowa Exceed Formaldehyde Levels Considered Safe

Oct 23 2008 // A local television station has found high levels of formaldehyde in trailers issued to flood victims by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The agency responded Tuesday by questioning the survey’s...

AIG Environmental Enhances Pollution Legal Liability Coverage

Oct 20 2008 // AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance, enhanced and expanded its Pollution Legal Liability (PLL) insurance coverage to cover risks related to indoor air quality, non-owned disposal sites, emergency response...

Assessment of Ike’s Environmental Damage Begins

Oct 20 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage is now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled...

McGovern, Duggan Join National E&S Insurance Brokers

Oct 16 2008 // John McGovern and Paul Duggan have joined National E&S Insurance Brokers Inc., a specialty wholesale environmental insurance broker based in Palmdale, Calif. Both McGovern and Duggan have extensive experience in...

Investigation: Ike’s Toll on Environment a Heavy One

Oct 7 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil...

Judge Sides with Polluted Kansas Town Over Big Oil

Sep 25 2008 // After three days of deliberation in one of the longest jury trials ever held in Kansas, a jury in January left residents in a southeast city stunned. The panel had decided that the city of Neodesha was not entitled to...

Willis Introduces EPIQ, for Environmental Risk Assessment

Sep 25 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has introduced EPIQSM (Environmental Prospective Identification and Quantification), which it describes as an “an innovative and proprietary process that generates credible loss distributions...

Marsh Sees Credit Crunch ‘Hardening’ Rates, ‘But Not Just Yet’

Sep 12 2008 // According to a recently released report from Marsh, “insurance rates across most lines of business in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region continued to soften in the first half of 2008.” However,...

Conf. Board Urges Tech Transfer to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses

Sep 10 2008 // In a new report the Conference Board, a non-profit, business research organization, has concluded “restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are not feasible without significant productivity growth and a...

Willis Re Director Named to UK’s National Environment Research Council

Sep 9 2008 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global broker Willis Group Holdings announced that Rowan Douglas, managing director of analytics for Willis Re’s International and Specialty divisions, has been appointed to the...

Texas Environmental Case Against 7 Petrochemical Plants Resolved

Aug 27 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced the resolution of the state’s environmental enforcement action against two Lyondell Chemical Company subsidiaries that operated seven petrochemical plants in Houston and...

Thousands of Federally Placed Underground Fuel Tanks Could Leak

Aug 14 2008 // The government owns hundreds of underground fuel tanks — many designed for emergencies back in the Cold War — that need to be inspected for leaks of hazardous substances that could make local water...

Aon Launches ‘Green Building Property Program’

Aug 7 2008 // Aon Corporation has launched the “Aon Green Building Property Program,” which it describes as the “industry’s most comprehensive insurance solution to facilitate environmentally friendly and...

Everest Opens Environmental Office

Aug 6 2008 // Everest Indemnity Insurance Company, a U.S. insurance subsidiary of the Bermuda-based Everest Re Group, has started writing business through its newly opened Environmental Insurance underwriting office located at its...

XL Insurance Offers Specialized Environmental Program

Aug 6 2008 // XL Insurance, XL Capital Ltd’s global insurance operation, has announced the availability of a specialized environmental insurance program that addresses pollution liability and clean-up expenses for US warehouses,...

ACE Europe Names Bartolo to Manchester Environmental Risk Post

Aug 5 2008 // The ACE European group has appointed Emma Bartolo as Environmental Risk Underwriter in Manchester, in a move that enhances its regional specialty lines underwriting capabilities. She “will be responsible for driving...