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Catlin USA Introduces Three New Environmental Products
New Day Underwriting Managers understands the challenges and complexities that exist with navigating the various carrier forms from new forms issued, form updates and just the mass quantity of forms available.  Backed by our experience in the industry and our longstanding relationships with the various carriers and individual underwriters, we stand ready to work with them along with our broker partners to create the optimal environmental risk management solutions for your clients.
 
In this email, we discuss three new products offered by Catlin USA:
  • Environmental Protective Professional and Pollution Liability Product (EP3)
  • Owner's Environmental Protective Professional Indemnity and Excess Contractor's Pollution Liability Product (OEP)
  • Site Pollution Liability (SPL)
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIVE PROFESSIONAL AND POLLUTION LIABILITY PRODUCT (EP3)
 
For environmental service firms, Catlin USA's Environmental Protective, Professional and Pollution Liability product not only provides professional and pollution liability to environmental firms, but also provides protective coverage and mitigation of loss coverage that only existed for traditional construction/design-build firms.
 
Coverage Highlights
  • Practice or project-specific programs available
  • Mitigation of damages for first-party costs incurred as a result of negligent acts, errors and omissions in remedial design
  • Pollution loss including emergency expense, and corporate reputation rehabilitation
  • First-party indemnity (protective) coverage with difference in conditions (DIC) coverage
  • Contractor's pollution (CPL) coverage including mold, fungus and legionella on occurrence or claims made basis
  • No self-insured retention for failure to maintain design professional's insurance
  • Transportation and non-owned disposal sites (NODS) coverage under CPL coverage part
  • Limits - up to $10 million per claim/project/aggregate
  • Minimum premium $10,000/minimum deductible $10,000
OWNER'S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIVE PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY AND EXCESS
CONTRACTOR'S POLLUTION LIABILITY PRODUCT (OEP)
For owner's of environmental remediation projects, Catlin USA's OEP product provides coverage to the Owner in the event that the contracted design professionals' professional liability insurance, as well as the contracted contracting entities' pollution liability insurance, are not adequate or become unavailable for any reason.
 
Coverage Highlights
  • Annual or project-specific programs available
  • Difference in conditions (DIC) responds to losses in the event that the policy is broader than the underlying policy
  • No self-insured retention for target customer and traditional delivery system
  • Excess contractor's pollution liability coverage with option to purchase primary coverage for all contracting entities
  • Minimum insurance requirements (MIR) for underlying prime design professionals and prime contracting entities apply
  • Claims-made/occurrence pollution coverage
  • Provides defense of third-party claims against the owner, subject to specified deductible
  • Limits - up to $10 million per project/aggregate
  • Minimum premium of $50,000
SITE POLLUTION LIABILITY (SPL)
 
Catlin's Site Pollution Liability (SPL) policy offers first and third-party liability coverage for bodily injury, property damage and cleanup resulting from unforeseen pollution conditions.  An option for first-party indemnity protective coverage is also available in the event remediation is being performed. Catlin will consider a wide range of risks for primary and excess underwriting.
Coverage Highlights
  • First- and third-party liability for on and off-site sudden, accidental and gradual pollution events
  • Mold, fungus and legionella coverage
  • Non-owned disposal site coverage
  • First- and third-party transportation pollution coverage 
  • Natural resource damages coverage
  • Primary contractor's pollution liability coverage option
  • Protective contractor's pollution, errors & omissions and third-party claim defense coverage option
  • Limits - up to $10 million
  • $10,000 minimum premium 
  • Policy term - 10 years - pre-existing; 3 years - new
  • Supplementary coverages with separate limits:
    • Claims expense for disciplinary proceedings
    • Litigation expense reimbursement
    • Subpoena expenses coverage extension
    • Corporate reputation rehabilitation

The above is only a brief overview of the Catlin USA products discussed.  The information contained above has been provided by New Day Underwriting Managers LLC for general discussion purposes.  The information is not offered for the purpose of providing exact coverage terms or conditions.  Policies should be reviewed to understand all coverage terms and conditions.

If you have any questions regarding these Catlin USA products and their applicability to your Insured, please call Jeff Slivka, Executive Vice President, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC at 609.298.3516 Ext. 102 or email to jeff.slivka@newdayunderwriting.com.

 
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