Source: http://www.courierpostonline.com, June 7, 2015 By: Ian Adams Santa Barbara County is the latest seaside community to watch its coastline dirtied by an all-too-recognizable black sludge. Early estimates project that more than 100,000 gallons of oil have spilled onto Refugio State Beach via a pipe that burst the morning of May 19. To address the […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, June 3, 2015 By: Stephanie K. Jones While stand-alone pollution insurance coverage for energy risks is available in the marketplace, more often than not those who need it the most may be unaware it is available or decide not to purchase it. That creates a coverage gap for many oil and gas production-related […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 20, 2015 By: Alexander J. Bandza, Jenner & Block Last week, the New Jersey Assembly unanimously passed a bill, A4258, which is notably broad in its language on allocating liability and damages for releases of hazardous substances from offshore drilling platforms.  The bill would supplement N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.11, the New Jersey Spill Compensation and […]

Source: New York Times Online, May 4, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An analysis of drinking water sampled from three homes in Bradford County, Pa., revealed traces of a compound commonly found in Marcellus Shale drilling fluids, according to a study published on Monday. The paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, […]

Source: http://www.vancouversun.com, December 9, 2014 By: Margaret Munro Imperial Oil workers came knocking in Calmar, a small town southwest of Edmonton, looking for old oil and gas wells in 2008. They found one leaking just a metre from the Beaudry home on Evergreen Crescent and took drastic steps to try to stop the gas rising […]

Source: The New York Times, November 19, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Drilling for oil and natural gas will be mostly off-limits in the largest national forest in the East, whose streams bring drinking water to Washington and Richmond, Va., the federal government said Tuesday. But in a reversal of an earlier proposal to ban hydraulic […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 30, 2014 By: Heidi A. Lawson and Scott A. Rader, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. Last week we wrote about a new business interruption insurance policy that is being rolled out to healthcare providers which will provide specific coverage for various ebola-related losses. This week we note that some […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, November 2, 2014 By: Robb S. Harvey, Neil B. Krugman and Mark M. Bell, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis The news media has reported extensively on the arrival of the Ebola virus in the United States, and has provided substantial detail about the first United States citizens to contract the virus. First, healthcare […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 29, 2014 By: Marshall Gilinsky and Diana Shafter Gliedman, Anderson Kill Originally published in Anderson Kill’s Policyholder Alert, October 2014 As Americans absorb news of the first Ebola cases on U.S. soil, job one is to maintain perspective, and confidence in the ability of U.S. public officials and health care providers to […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, October 26, 2014 By: Douglas McLeod Ace Ltd. issues exclusion for some policies The possible spread of the Ebola virus in the United States is raising coverage concerns under commercial insurance ranging from general liability to the business interruption protection of property policies. Potential problems — such as whether an Ebola case triggers […]

Source: The Charleston Gazette (WV), October 26, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com One of the nation’s best-known experts on the Marcellus Shale concluded that more investigation is needed before a Houston firm is allowed to move forward with natural gas wells near the site of a “near-catastrophic” fracking incident at a Marshall County chemical plant. Penn […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, October 23, 2014 By: Carolyn Cohn, Rihard Naidu and Avik Das As fear of Ebola infections spreads to developed economies, U.S. and British insurance companies have begun writing Ebola exclusions into standard policies to cover hospitals, event organizers and other businesses vulnerable to local disruptions. As a result, new policies and renewals will […]