It’s inevitable this time of year to start looking back and taking inventory of where you’ve been. This month, as I’ve been preparing to write this article, I’ve let my hindsight wander back beyond January of 2021 and across the ground that we’ve covered together since I started writing The Environmental Corner full-time in January […]
The strategic avoidance of risk through insurance agreements was contemplated as early as the Babylonian Empire over 6,000 years ago. The history of applying insurance products directly to environmental contamination risks isn’t quite as ancient; but the sequence of identifying environmental risks and developing insurance products to offset those risks has been ongoing since environmental […]
The evolution of environmental laws and regulations over the past few decades have resulted in the reality that operators of drycleaners, owners of property where drycleaning has occurred and chemical suppliers or waste haulers can all be held responsible for an identified release of solvents to the ground, no matter how long ago it happened. […]
