Biofuels, green design, and alternative energy. XL Group’s Christian Muller on the insurer’s role in building a sustainable future. Read more.

Effective August 1st, Catlin Environmental has $15MM in Capacity for its three core environmental products, including Site Pollution Liability, Environmental Protective Professional and Pollution Liability, and Owners Environmental Protective Professional Indemnity products. This increased capacity is a direct result of our growing commitment to the environmental insurance marketplace and is reflective of our strong growth […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, August 8, 2011 The Navigators Group Inc. and its principal underwriting agency subsidiary, Navigators Management Co. Inc., expanded its online system for contractors pollution liability insurance. New enhancements to the online platform include options for affirmative coverage for fungus/mold caused by negligent contracting operations; increased available limits up to $2 million each occurrence […]

Source: Business Wire, August 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chartis has expanded NextGen Protection, a suite of environmental insurance solutions offered through its Environmental division, to further meet the needs of the project contractor. The latest product in the NextGen Protection suite is CPL ProjectProtectSM, which has been designed as a comprehensive environmental insurance solution to help […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, July 13, 2011 ACE Westchester, the U.S.-based wholesale-focused insurance division of the ACE Group, has launched ACE Westchester Elite Premises Pollution Liability form. The new policy provides a package of pollution coverages and offers additional enhancements for the risks and exposures faced by owners of facilities affected by changing environmental regulations. This enhanced […]

New Day Underwriting Managers has always made it a priority to keep its broker partners educated on the vast number of environmental and construction-related professional liability products available in the marketplace. As part of this priority, throughout 2011 New Day will issue Product Highlights to our broker partners. This is the first in a series […]

Source: Insurance Journal, April 20, 2011 Ironshore Inc.’s Environmental Insurance unit has enhanced its asset-class specific Site Pollution Incident Legal Liability Select (SPILLS) suite of products to address risk exposures within the education sector, including public and private K-12 schools, colleges, universities and other educational facilities.  Ironshore’s SPILLS EDU program provides coverages for a range of […]

Source: Datamonitor InsuranceWire, April 6, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com According to Rich Corbett, President of XL Insurance’s North America Environmental operations, “In the US alone, an estimated 400 million electronic units are discarded each year, creating an ever-growing stream of e-waste. As many electronics contain lead, mercury, cadmium and other pollutants, it’s an environmental issue of […]

Click here to read the latest issue of The Environmental Advisor from the Environmental Division of Great American Insurance Group. This issue includes the following: Letter from the Divisional President, John Reynolds Brownfield Programs and Great American, Pete Pantalone Brownfield Claims Require Special Handling, Bill Hoffman Distressed Assets, How to Capitalize on Opportunities, Robert Potter […]

Acknowledgment to Great American Great American Insurance Group’s Environmental Division is pleased to announce that it has been named as a Selected Insurance Carrier for the Massachusetts Brownfield Redevelopment Access to Capital (“BRAC”) Program by the Massachusetts Business Development Corporation. The BRAC Program promotes access to private sources of loan and investment capital for the […]

Acknowledgement to XL Environmental Most property transactions require a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment by either the contractual or lender agreement but does it fully protect the parties involved? There are limitations to a Phase I in that they only provide research into the historical use of the property. Whereas a Phase II assessment’s soil […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental Ironshore EDU is a comprehensive environmental insurance policy that assists schools in managing their environmental exposures in an affordable manner, thereby helping to control not only environmental liabilities but also school finances. Exposures: Mold:  Costly remediation of mold growth; associated bodily injury claims. Contaminated drinking water:  Bodily injury claims related to […]