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By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 13, 2012
Assuming climate change is inevitable, a government and educational institution released a study outlining how building professionals can anticipate changing environmental conditions.
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By J. Robert Renner |
July 29, 2011
In American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, the U.S. Supreme Court held in an 8-0 decision that the Clean Air Act displaced any federal common-law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants.
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By J. Robert Renner |
June 30, 2011
The Supreme Court decision in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut is as noteworthy for what the justices did not decide as for what they did.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 20, 2011
Insurance-industry lawyers are calling a global-warming lawsuit based on nuisance laws “the most significant case for the property and casualty insurance industry before the U.S. Supreme Court this term.”
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By William F. Stewart |
April 4, 2011
A climate nuisance liability case to be heard by the Supreme Court may be the environmental case of the decade, according to William F. Stewart, a coverage attorney, who details the implications of Conn. vs. AEP.
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By William F. Stewart |
March 18, 2011
Power companies and their insurers face an emerging threat, according to William F. Stewart, a coverage attorney. A climate nuisance liability case to be heard by the Supreme Court in April may be the environmental case of the decade, he says in an article that details the implications of Conn....
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By Associated Press |
March 12, 2011
None of Berkshire Hathaway's top executives received big raises last year, and the chief financial officer earned nearly twice as much as his more famous boss, Warren Buffett.
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By David Bresch |
February 16, 2011
In 2009, natural catastrophes claimed 9,000 lives worldwide and cost insurers $22 billion, even though the year was considered to be a low-loss year compared with previous years.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 11, 2011
Natural gas exploration companies and public risk managers have a number of issues to consider—from environmental risks of the extraction process to risk transfer—before embracing the process of hydraulic fracturing.
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By David Bresch |
February 7, 2011
Natural catastrophes in 2009 demonstrated the increasing potential from allied secondary perils. Increasingly complex and interlinked risks arising as a consequence of climate change make public-private partnerships essential, Swiss Re’s David Bresch argues.
