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Managing Environmental Risks in the Chemical Industry

Chemical companies are adapting to heightened scrutiny from regulators and other stakeholders. Understanding your environmental exposure is critical.

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Identify

Evaluate evolving and emerging risks through the lens of industry.

Understand

Carefully assess risk to your organization and determine risk appetite on the balance sheet.

Address

Strategically transfer cleanup liabilities, 3rd party claims, financial loss, and legal expenses into the insurance marketplace.

Chemical companies, including commodity, specialty, and personal care companies, are adapting to heightened scrutiny from both regulators and other stakeholders. Understanding your environmental exposure is critical. Marsh’s environmental risk experts have the knowledge needed to help you effectively anticipate, mitigate, and transfer the various risks you face, so you can embrace new opportunities while minimizing the impacts to your bottom line.

A comprehensive view

From developing advanced technology to meet the demands of a sophisticated and socially-conscious customer, to navigating disruption, the chemical industry is facing an actively changing risk landscape. Chemical companies are being called upon to avoid impacting the environment with their operations, while also managing emerging issues such as new contaminants, changes in regulations, toxic tort and product liability, and a changing environment, including more frequent and more severe weather events.

The push for environmental responsibility is at an all-time high. Operating in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment requires innovative risk management and insurance solutions.

Marsh’s team of environmental experts understand the unique challenges chemical companies face to help you identify, assess, and prioritize the risks facing your business and offer you tailored insurance solutions to help your business mitigate your environmental risks.

Our expertise and solutions

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Asbestos Liability Risk Transfer

Innovative coverage solution to address third-party claims stemming from products or occupational exposures.
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Contractors Pollution Liability

Protecting contractors, owners, sponsors, and lenders from pollution claims that arise out of contracted work.
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Cost Cap Insurance

Assuming the risk of cost overruns on environmental cleanup projects, creating post-transaction cost awareness.
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Environmental Liability Buyout

06/14/2022

Removing financial uncertainty from environmental cleanup costs.
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Excess of Indemnity

Insuring the counterparty credit risk associated with purchase and sale agreements.
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Lenders Environmental Liability

Providing lenders options and financial security in the event of a loan default.
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Pollution Legal Liability

Offers protection from cleanup and tort liability for site pollution exposures resulting from your current and historic operations.
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PRP Shield: A Solution for Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) Environmental Risk

08/24/2021

A first-of-its-kind solution to a decades-old problem that bundles pollution legal liability (PLL) coverage and a cost cap solution.

Why Marsh

As an industry leader in providing environmental placement and claims solutions, our team handles more than 500 claims annually and has advocated on more than 2,500 claims in the past five years. Among our 40 dedicated environmental colleagues, nearly half have received Risk & Insurance’s Power Broker award, a designation given to risk management professionals based on demonstrated excellence in solving insurance-related issues, per client testimonial.

 

 

 

Our people

Corinne Dougherty

Vice President, Environmental Practice

  • United States

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