Policyholders want government out of cleanups.

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, January, 1995 by Katz, David M.

An anti-government philosophy and the drive for efficiency provide powerful enough incentives for big policyholders to clean up polluted sites quickly--even if insurance coverage is hard to come by, sources on the policyholder side say. "When a company has an environmental remedial responsibility, they're going to clean it up without regard to whether there's...insurance," said Cheri J.

Hawkins, assistant treasurer and insurance director at Tacoma, Wash.-based Weyerhaeuser Co. "Then, in those sites where there has been thirdparty property damage, we would look to the general liability policies to respond." In a May 19 decision involving 15 sites allegedly polluted by Weyerhaeuser, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that comprehensive general liability policies...

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