are you insured?

A recent judgment has highlighted that making a claim for pollution incidents under a general insurance policy may be problematic. In view of this, a thriving market in specialist environmental insurance policies has developed over recent years. The cover available from these has dramatically increased and the cost fallen. These policies can be used as an environmental risk management tool during an acquisition or disposal and as part of a routine property insurance programme. These specialist insurance policies do vary dramatically in terms of their policy wording and the nature of contamination and other risks that they cover.

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