Ground control.
New laws force polluters to clean-up contaminated land - and that includes gradual pollution from previous owners. Standard liability policies are not enough. Insurers must redevelop a variety of solutions to the exposures faced. Simon Threadgold digs deep.
Industrialisation may have made Britain great, but it has alsoproduced a huge amount of pollution and we are now starting to pay the
price of our forefathers' dirty habits - not to mention our own
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