Insurance Support

Drawing on their experience as in-house environmental consultants for a major insurance firm, Dominion’s insurance support specialists provide claims professionals with cost-effective insurance claim support including accurate environmental damage and cost-cap policy evaluations, knowledgeable litigation and settlement support, and expert testimony.

Dominion’s insurance support specialists understand the insurance company’s claim evaluation and insurance litigation needs and are experienced in obtaining cost-cap insurance policies in order to alleviate long-term indemnity concerns and assist with policy buyback settlement negotiations.

In addition, Dominion’s staff scientists have extensive experience in guiding large complex chemical and industrial sites through the investigation/feasibility study, risk assessment, and remediation phases to regulatory closure and can assist the claims professional in determining the most cost-effective use of available funds to complete site remediation. Dominion assists claims professionals with:

	Environmental Claim Support: Click Here for more information.
	Evaluation of Damages for Large Claim Exposures: Click Here for more information.
	Cost-Cap Policy Support (Stop Loss): Click Here for more information.

The Dominion Advantage

Dominion offers a four-fold advantage to resolving environmental insurance claims:

	Insurance Industry Expertise: Dominion’s staff includes former in-house insurance environmental consultants and insurance industry professionals with expert knowledge of the technical, financial, and legal issues of importance to insurance firms.
	Accurate Exposure/Allocation Assessments: Dominion works hand-in-hand with the insurance professional and counsel to accurately define policy exposure and allocation on primary, umbrella, and excess policies. Throughout our experience in handling over 100 claims where damages exceeded $1 million, Dominion has documented actual site past-and-future estimated costs to be as low as 5 percent of presented damages.
	Litigation Support Track Record: Dominion has assisted litigation teams with over 100 environmental insurance claims valued between $1 million and $4 billion, providing forensic evaluations related to environmental damage and natural resource damage (NRD) claims.
	Settlement/Mediation Guidance: Dominion provides the information and guidance needed to go into the settlement/mediation process with confidence that the value of the claim and exposure to the company have been accurately determined. Dominion’s technical presentations have resulted in several claim dismissals during mediation conferences and savings of over $40 million on policy buyback settlements below policy exposures.

Our Services

We offer a full range of damage evaluation and litigation/mediation support services including:

Claim Support Services	Joint Defense Group Support	Vendor Management
Damage Evaluations/Reserve Setting	Reasonable/Necessary Evaluations	Construction Defect Investigations
Settlement/Mediation Support	Defense vs. Indemnity Evaluations	Mold/Fungi Identifications
Forensic Damage Evaluations	Third-Party Review	Litigation Support
Cost-of-Doing-Business Analysis	Plant Pathology Evaluation

Dominion Provides Insurance Support For Cases Involving:

Dry Cleaners	Underground Storage Tanks	Pesticide Manufacturers
Chemical Manufacturers	Petroleum Refineries	Manufacturing Facilities
Landfills	Wood Treatment Facilities	Metal Plating Facilities
Paper Manufacturers	Electronic Manufacturers	Mining Companies
Aircraft Manufacturers	Manufactured Gas Sites

California Office	Arizona Office
625 2nd Street, Suite 202	7330 North 16th Street, Suite B101
Petaluma, CA 94952-5159	Phoenix, AZ 85020-5274
Toll Free: (866) 818-9002	Toll Free: (800) 350-0051
Fax: (707) 658-2031	Fax: (602) 943-0553

Dominion Environmental

Insurance Support

The Dominion Advantage

Our Services

Dominion Provides Insurance Support For Cases Involving:

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