environmental insurance policy Articles
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Mine reclamation bonding and environmental insurance
Mineral extraction is normally followed by rehabilitation of the mined area. A growing number of jurisdictions are using environmental bonding to provide financial assurance that rehabilitation will be carried out as agreed at the permitting stage. The current practice in environmental bonding for mining is critically reviewed. In theory, it is an efficient economic enforcement mechanism but has ...
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Transfer Your Environmental Risks to a Third Party
Remediation of contaminated sites often is costly and time-consuming, diverting scarce corporate resources from a company’s core operations. Moreover, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and recent Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board rules and standards governing accounting for and reporting of environmental liabilities (e.g., FIN 47 Accounting for Conditional Asset ...
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Environmental Insurance for Lenders: What is It, and Can It Substitute for Due Diligence?
This article addresses two aspects of the new environmental insurance policies for lenders (usually referred to as Secured Creditor, or SC, policies): that of the sometimes significant differences among the policies now on the market, and the controversial due diligence issue - whether the policies can be a 'substitute' for environmental due diligence or a Phase I. The four major environmental ...
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Integrated Environmental Risk Management in Real Estate Transactions
Traditional risk management posits a rational, five-step process for managing risks. The outstanding differences between this traditional process and the environmental risk management process lie in the technicality and complexity of step one (identifying and analyzing environmental risk) and of the first part of step two (examining the feasibility of alternative risk management, specifically ...
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Environmental Insurance: Finding a Good Tailor
An article by this author in the December 1999 issue of Brownfield News analyzed two new environmental insurance products, the cleanup cost cap and pollution liability policies, which have proven to be key factors in the success of some contaminated property transactions. The article explained that, to achieve this success, environmental insurance experts need to tailor the policy to the ...
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The New Environmental Insurance Products: When Does it Make Sense to Buy Them?
Part One Introduction Real estate transactions with environmental problems often founder on attempts to shift the liabilities from one party to the other. In transactions with other types of problems, insurance is a popular risk transfer mechanism, and is regularly used for that purpose, but it is used far less often when there are environmental risks. This so-called 'environmental insurance ...
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Environmental Insurance: Tailored to Fit
More sophisticated insurance tools are making it earier to protect your property Contaminated properties represent a huge investment opportunity, but much of it lies untapped because of environmental liability concerns. Anyone who buys property that is actually or potentially contaminated should consider it as a risk management option, and they should do so very early in the brownfield ...
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