Description: Companies, their officers and directors as well as other individuals and entities risk incurring substantial costs, the loss of reputation or, in some cases, criminal sanctions if they fail to consider environmental liabilities in their operations and commercial transactions. The liabilities have become ever more numerous and complex; a trend that shows no sign of abating in either England or the United States. Advisors who are called on to alert their clients to environmental liabilities and to enable them to avoid, mitigate or transfer them include accountants, insurance brokers, lawyers and surveyors as well as more traditional environmental advisors such as environmental consultants and engineers.

Environmental Liabilities and Insurance in England and the United States analyses civil and criminal environmental liabilities, programmes to clean up contamination and to redevelop contaminated sites, claims for bodily injury and property damage from exposure to pollutants and associated topics in order to explain their implications for individuals, commercial and industrial companies, organisations, the insurance industry and their advisors. The book also examines cover for environmental liabilities in public liability, property and other general insurance policies as well as policies that have been developed specifically to provide such cover.