Blogger Archives: Anthony Wagar

Anthony Wagar

Anthony is a Senior Vice President and the National Sales Leader for Willis' Environmental Practice based in New York. He has close to 20 years of experience from a regulatory, underwriting and brokerage perspective. He blogs on matters relating to environmental risk, exposures and insurance.

The Rebirth of Mold Claims?

by Anthony Wagar, May 15, 2012 | Posted in Environmental Liability, Featured

Landlords, co-ops, and condo boards should be concerned about court ruling on health link to mold exposure. Continue reading → Continue reading →

As Green Goes Global, So Do Your Environmental Liability Exposures

by Anthony Wagar, April 20, 2012 | Posted in Environmental Liability

From Earth Day and the formation of the EPA in the United States in 1970, to Kyoto and Copenhagen 40 years later, environmentally protective laws are increasingly a global phenomenon. Continue reading →

Power Lines: More Than Just an Eye Sore?

by Anthony Wagar, February 17, 2012 | Posted in Environmental Liability, Real Estate

With third-party lawsuits over “pollutants” on the rise, real estate owners look to the insurance industry to help address the risk of electro magnetic fields Continue reading → Continue reading →

Emerging Environmental Liability Risk of 2012

by Anthony Wagar, January 24, 2012 | Posted in Energy, Environmental Liability

As per Robin Somerville’s blog above, hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” as it’s more commonly referred to, is quickly emerging as one of the more significant risks facing not only the Energy market but the Environmental insurance industry too. Continue reading →

Scariest Environmental Liability Risk: The Unknown

by Anthony Wagar, October 31, 2011 | Posted in Environmental Liability

It’s not the environmental issues that are “known” that keep us up at night…it’s the ones we don’t know about that scare us most. Continue reading → Continue reading →

5 Reasons to Explore the Environmental Insurance Marketplace

by Anthony Wagar, September 28, 2011 | Posted in Environmental Liability

We’ve all heard a lot in the news lately about some rather large and very damaging environmental catastrophes: the nuclear contamination that followed the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the release of toxic sludge at a metal refinery in Hungary, … Continue reading → Continue reading →