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 […]
Category: The Environmental Corner
Perc Contamination: A Tale of Two Drycleaners (revisited)
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. […]
Be A Good Neighbor, Especially During Environmental Work
What’s worse than a bad neighbor? Different things annoy different people, so the definition of a bad neighbor is a personal thing, but I’m sure you’ve all heard from your neighbors a time or two through the years. What kind of things did they have to say? Most residents don’t take the time to call […]