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• Meet the Experts: Environmental Leaders

  Click through to check out biographies of the brokers, carrier executives and risk managers dealing in Environmental insurance who offer their perspective throughout PC360-NU’s January digital issue. The subjects also offer additional thoughts on this line, including their views on why more clients should strongly consider this relatively inexpensive but highly valuable coverage.

• Beacon Hill's Bill Pritchard on Key Trends in Environmental Insurance

  PC360 speaks with Bill Pritchard, president of Beacon Hill Associates, a wholesale broker specializing exclusively in environmental-insurance solutions for commercial insureds. He addresses capacity, pricing, emerging risks, and top-of-mind concerns among both buyers and carriers.

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Featured Report

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  Environmental Oversight

  Aided by low prices—and large uncovered losses caused by recent events—Environmental carriers and producers see opportunity to expand purchases by new business classes, including health care, higher ed & hospitality.

• Marsh: Rethinking Environmental

  The standard rap on Environmental insurance is that organizations only purchase it when they have to—required either by regulatory bodies or lenders to secure the coverage. But it’s a different story for at least some of the clients of Marsh, the dominant Environmental brokerage.

Podcast

Beacon Hill's producers talk about what they are seeing in the market, noteworthy trends, and give their "take" on the environmental insurance marketplace.

• 2012 Beacon Hill Roundtable Discussion

Recommended Resources

Environmental Risk Resources Association

Case Studies

• Case Studies in Environmental Risk Management
• Environmental Coverage Guide: Sites & Facilities
• Understanding Risk Associated With Contaminants of Emerging Concern
• Broader Coverage in the Specialty E&S Market by Brett Amick
• Water Remediation Contractor by Bob Varnes
• Company Growth in a Renewal Account by Jamie Lewis
• Soil Remediation and Scrap Metal Recycler by Michael Tighe