{"id":553,"date":"2025-09-12T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/?p=553"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:41:13","slug":"environmental-deregulation-fuels-insurance-uncertainties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2025\/09\/12\/environmental-deregulation-fuels-insurance-uncertainties\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Deregulation Fuels Insurance Uncertainties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almost eight\u00a0months into the new administration, the federal government has slashed staffing at the Environmental Protection Agency and begun unwinding both recent and long-standing environmental rules.\u00a0Policyholders and carriers see the regulatory pullback from pollution and other standards\u00a0as bringing immediate benefits and long-term uncertainty.<br><br>Pollution claims have largely emerged from historic commercial general liability policies written before the mid-1980s, when an absolute pollution exclusion became\u00a0the industry standard, and subsequent pollution risk policies, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/maxhstern.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/maxhstern.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Max H. Stern<\/a> of Duane Morris.<br><br>&#8220;Very likely, we&#8217;ll see a decrease in new claims being made with a major reduction in environmental enforcement, and that will be helpful to the pollution liability insurance market because they&#8217;re just going to have less risk,&#8221; he told Law360. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/insurance-authority\/articles\/2387101\/environmental-deregulation-fuels-insurance-uncertainties-\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/insurance-authority\/articles\/2387101\/environmental-deregulation-fuels-insurance-uncertainties-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article on the Law360 website. <\/a><\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost eight\u00a0months into the new administration, the federal government has slashed staffing at the Environmental Protection Agency and begun unwinding both recent and long-standing environmental rules.\u00a0Policyholders and carriers see the regulatory pullback from pollution and other standards\u00a0as bringing immediate benefits and long-term uncertainty. Pollution claims have largely emerged from historic commercial general liability policies written &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2025\/09\/12\/environmental-deregulation-fuels-insurance-uncertainties\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Environmental Deregulation Fuels Insurance Uncertainties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[494,493,492,12,50,491,495],"ppma_author":[417],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-commercial-general-liability-policies","tag-environmental-protection-acgency","tag-epa","tag-insurance","tag-max-stern","tag-media-quote","tag-pollution-liability-insurance"],"authors":[{"term_id":417,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}