The need to protect companies from unforeseen liabilities, expenses and litigation associated with environmental claims is becoming a part of the insurance management process for businesses across the US. Various industries have a critical need of environmental coverage and increasingly the scope of companies once not considered generally exposed to risk have become more susceptible to litigation regarding their corporate responsibility to the environment.

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Some of the industries requiring coverage are: 

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• Environmental contractors

• Asbestos & lead abatement, contaminated soil excavation, hazardous waste, lab packing, spill response, bioremediation, drum recycling/reconditioning, industrial cleaning, UST installation/removal, underground/aboveground tank cleaning, water and waste water treatment, battery recycling, waste oil recycling, landfills and transfer stations

• Non-environmental contractors

• General contractors of all kinds, engineering, plumbing, excavation, grading, utility, sewer and water, street & road, paving, and landscapers

• Consultants

• Analytical labs, industrial hygiene/health and safety, feasibility studies, permitting, phase I and II assessments, regulatory compliance, remedial oversight and investigations

• Fixed site

• Manufacturing, warehouses, office buildings, self storage facilities, any commercial real estate transaction

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Some of the insurance carriers we work with are:

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• ACE 

• AIG Group of Companies

• American Safety

• Arch

• Chubb 

• Evanston

• Everest

• Lloyds/London Markets

• United Coastal

• XL 

• Zurich

 

FIRSTGATE has the ability to work with your company to develop an appropriate layer of protection from environmental exposure that is tailored to fit your company’s needs. Multiple programs require the proper selection of the appropriate coverages needed to provide adequate protection should a claim occur. Our two decades of experience placing coverage in the environmental insurance marketplace can bring to your company the expertise needed to get the right environmental protection at a competitive price.