Blackstone provides full-service technical consulting for insurance coverage issues. Determining insurance coverage for environmental remediation involves complex legal and technical issues, such as the determination of how damages occurred, the approximate timeline of a release, whether or not coverage is triggered, whether or not the remedial or response costs were “reasonable and necessary,” and if a potential exists for contaminants to migrate off-site. Blackstone can also assist in determining the basis for toxic tort claims and evaluating appropriate remedial approaches.
Blackstone’s expertise in site assessments, remediation, geochemistry, risk assessment, and modeling, enable Blackstone to address technical issues related to a claim or insurance coverage, such as the following:
In cases where regulatory-based evaluation or previous assessments are available for an insured or loss location, Blackstone also performs third-party reviews of regulatory environmental projects to evaluate the following conditions: