Chemical World: Dangers Lurk in the Environmental Market
As other markets ebb and flow, environmental liability insurance usually remains unaffected—but new exposures may be starting to bubble up from below the surface.

As other markets ebb and flow, environmental liability insurance usually remains unaffected—but new exposures may be starting to bubble up from below the surface.
Changes in the environmental liability market means that “exposures can be found in all types of businesses,” says independent agent Bill Braley. “Coverage for environmental exposures has moved well beyond regulatory compliance and obvious pollution expos
Ironshore Environmental’s new product provides an additional option for insureds to broaden their protection for pollution exposure associated with their products and helps fill policy coverage gaps.
Beazley recently made significant enhancements to its market-leading environmental liability insurance policy ECLIPSE to offer robust and creative risk transfer solutions for businesses, landowners and real estate investors.
Beazley’s newest environmental liability product provides lender coverage to protect against environmental issues at a borrower’s real estate on single loans.
With a broad appetite for commercial storage tanks of varying age and construction, Ironshore helps fulfill a market need by offering a solution for harder-to-place tanks.
Independent agent Jack Adams believes the environmental insurance market represents “a tremendous opportunity for agents or brokers,” he says. “New policy sales are slowly increasing, coverage is still not widely understood and insureds are frequently una
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After starting her insurance career as a receptionist, Annie Johnson quickly moved up the ranks as a CSR and later joined The Hanover as a direct sales agent—until she and her husband decided they wanted to move back to Alaska and open an agency in their