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Environmental clean-up policies
Underwriter Cover Exclusions Term Reporting Period Limit Deductible/Excess Minimum Premium Cost
AIG Europe (UK) Ltd
Tel: 0171 626 7866
Costs incurred in meeting requirements
of remediation notice
  • Deliberate act
  • Usually 1 to 5 years
  • Extra 36 months available
  • £20m aggregate
  • £5000/£10 000 min
  • £5000
  • Variable
     
  • Clean-up
  • Fines and penalties for
    environmental damage
  • Maximum 10 years
             
     
  • Legal defence costs
     
  • Annual renewal available
             
    Allianz Cornhill/Certa (UK) Ltd
    Tel:0171 903 6500
    Costs incurred in remediating to standard quoted in policy
  • Post inception pollution
  • 12 years plus
  • Within term
  • Variable
  • Variable
  • No minimum quoted
  • Typically 0.05% pa up to 0.25% pa based on ‘Limit’ - includes certification costs
     
  • Clean-up
  • Deliberate act
  • Optional 8 year roll forward or
             
     
  • Legal defence costs
  • Electro-magnetic radiation
  • Optional extension of
             
       
  • Asbestos
    6 years followed by an          
       
  • Non -specified uses
    extra 7 years          
    ECS Underwriting
    Tel: 0171 711 0222
    Costs incurred in meeting requirements of remediation notice
  • As appropriate
  • Up to 10 years
  • Extra 5 years available
  • Up to £10m aggregate
  • £5000/£8000 min
  • £15 000
  • Variable
     
  • Clean-up
                 
     
  • Legal defence costs
                 
    Liberty Legal Indemnities/
    BCD Underwriting
    Tel: 01892 863863
    Losses incurred due to the serving of a remediation notice under S.78
  • Deliberate act
  • Usually 10 years
  • Within term
  • Usually upto £5m per
    site
  • No minimum quoted
  • No minimum quoted
  • 0.05% to 0.1% per annum
    based on ‘Limit’
     
  • Clean-up
                 
     
  • Ancillary costs
                 
     
  • Blight-reduction in sale value (cover for owners/mortgagees)
                 
    NHBC
    Tel: 01494 434477
    (new section of warranty for new registrations from 1/4/99)
  • Consequential loss
  • As per warranty
  • Within term
  • Purchase price of home indexed at 12% pa capped at maximum of
  • As per warranty
  • Not applicable
  • Varies by builder
     
  • Costs incurred by home owner in complying with remediation notice
  • Human health
       
  • £1m per housing association site and
         
     
  • Clean-up
  • Financial loss by blight
       
  • £0.5m per private sector unit
         
     
  • Ancillary costs
  • Deliberate act
               
     
  • Property buy-back at NHBC’s option
  • Post inception pollution
               
    Zurich Municipal - Building
    Guarantees
    Tel: 01252 522000
    (Scheme starts later this year)
  • As appropriate
  • 10 years
  • Within term
  • Variable
  • Variable
  • Variable
  • Variable
     
  • Costs incurred in remediation
     
  • Extendible thereafter
             
     
  • Clean-up
                 
     
  • Ancillary costs