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Roux Associates has supported more than 45 national and regional insurance carriers in their efforts to fairly evaluate costs and liabilities for environmental investigations and remediation projects. We are highly qualified to help insurers evaluate environmental costs because we perform environmental investigations and clean-ups for both Fortune 100 clients and independently owned companies. We use the experience and knowledge we gain from competitively bidding these projects to fully understand the cost implications associated with an environmental insurance claim.
Our ongoing work at contaminated properties throughout the U.S. and internationally provides us with valuable, front-line knowledge regarding clean-up trends and technologies. All our environmental consulting work, whether for a major oil company, small business or insurance carrier, is focused on one goal: obtain regulatory closure for the site as quickly and cost effectively as possible.
As a result of this thinking, more than 25 policyholders have hired Roux as their own consultant after we reviewed data submitted as part of a claim. These policyholders, as well as their insurance carriers, recognized the quality of our service.
Our areas of service to insurance carriers include:
- Environmental Claims Evaluation
Since 1997, Roux has been providing national and regional insurance carriers and their outside counsel with technical environmental support as they settle and resolve claims for environmental contamination of both owned and non-owned properties.
- Environmental Underwriting Support
Roux supports the insurance industry with underwriting and loss control expertise for various pollution policies.
- Remedial Oversight
Roux`s oversight services focus on two interlocked aspects of an environmental projects: Project strategy and quality, and project costs.
- “Take Over” of Remediation Projects
For our insurance carrier clients and their policy holders, Roux has "taken-over" remediation projects where either remediation costs have spun out of control or previously submitted remediation plans have been rejected by environmental regulators.
- Expert Witness Services
Fortune 100 companies routinely call on the Roux Associates senior staff for engagement as expert witnesses on a wide range of technical issues.
Roux’s senior staff has provided insurance carriers with consulting and expert witness services on technical issues associated with contaminant fate and transport, cause and timing of environmental releases, air emissions, human health risk, remedial system design and remedial costs at contaminated sites.
We have experts on our in-house staff and each has 10-35 years of experience at real sites and has provided testimony on the technical environmental issues that arise during insurance litigation. In contrast to many other experts in this field, our senior staff is primarily involved in managing environmental projects for our industrial clients. They do not depend on litigation for their workload.