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Customized Insurance Solutions for Underground Storage Tanks

January 29, 2018, 4:29 pm | Commercial Liability, Commercial Property, General Liability, Specialty Liability by

Insurance for Underground Storage Tanks

Our Pollution Liability policy offers broad, flexible, and comprehensive pollution liability insurance for owners and operators of various risk on a claims-made policy form. Our Pollution Liability is designed to respond to environmental liabilities resulting from pollution incidents at, under, or emanating from your property. Under federal requirements, owners and operators must demonstrate financial responsibility for taking corrective action and for compensating third parties for bodily injury and property damage caused by accidents releases arising from the operation of aboveground or underground storage tanks. Now-a-day, carriers are non-renewing due to the age of the tanks.

Our Pollution Liability Program is geared toward the following:

  • Gas stations
  • Airports with their aboveground or underground storage tanks
  • Trucking companies with their own gas or diesel aboveground or underground storage tanks
  • Governmental entities such as municipality, city, or town with their own gas, diesel
  • Agriculture risk with aboveground or underground storage tanks
  • Heating oil distributors with aboveground or underground storage tanks

General Exposure:

  • Our Pollution Liability coverage provides third-party BI & PD resulting from storage tank incidents involving scheduled storage tanks
  • Corrective action resulting from storage tanks
  • Policy/certificate to satisfy federal and/or state requirements for financial responsibility
  • Coverage available in all states

Limits:

Limits vary from state to state as each state will either have their own requirement or federal requirement. States that follow the federal requirements 40 CFR 280 are as follows:

  • Per accident/per occurrence – amount of insurance coverage
  • Annual aggregate maximum amount of coverage that is required to cover on an annual basis no matter how many releases occur
  • All policies quoted on a claims-made basis (occurrence form available)
  • Limits up to $1,000,000/$2,000,000

Coverage:

  • Deductible BI/PD applies to state-mandated corrective action
  • Coverage includes a SIR – BI/PD for Third Party Liability (Minimum Deductible and/or SIR $10,000)
  • Coverage includes: sudden and accidental release
  • Coverage includes: non-sudden accidental release
  • Occurrence Form available
  • Coverage excludes any prior, existing, and ongoing leakage or contamination
  • Coverage is suspended during repairs, modifications, or replacements of tanks or related systems
  • Coverage excludes temporarily not in use or empty tanks – they must be filled in accordance with state or federal requirements

Contact

For a free and fast quote, call Rick J. Lindsey at 801-304-5510 or email rjl@xinsurance.com or ask your agent to call.

Rick LindseyAuthored by Rick J. Lindsey, President, Chairman, and CEO of XINSURANCE

Rick J. Lindsey hails from Salt Lake City, Utah. He began working in the mailroom of his father’s Salt Lake City insurance firm, getting his introduction to the business that became his lifelong career. Rick J. Lindsey quickly rose through the ranks while working in nearly every imaginable insurance industry job. As an entrepreneur, specialty lines underwriter, claims specialist, risk manager, and a licensed surplus lines broker, Rick J. Lindsey is highly skilled in all levels of leadership and execution. As he progressed on his career path, Rick J. Lindsey discovered an urgent need for insurers willing to write policies for high-risk individuals and businesses. He was frequently frustrated that he could not provide the liability protection these entities desperately needed to safeguard their assets. He also formed the belief that insurance companies acted too quickly to settle frivolous claims. Rick J. Lindsey decided to try a different approach. He started an insurance company and became the newly formed entity’s CEO. This opportunity has enabled Rick J. Lindsey to fill a void in the market and provide a valuable service to businesses, individuals, and insurance agents who write high-risk business. XINSURANCE also specializes in helping individuals and businesses who live a lifestyle or participate in activities that make them difficult for traditional carriers to insure. If you’ve been denied, non-renewed, or canceled coverage, don’t give up quite yet. Chances are XINSURANCE can help.

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