Originally published by Risk Management Magazine, August 2015.
One recent policy expressly referenced "medical infectious and pathological waste, low-level radioactive waste and material, Legionella and microbial matter" in the definition. Another included electromagnetic fields as well as "municipal, industrial, medical, pathological and low-level radioactive waste materials." Al Everts, a leading environmental insurance broker and director of Green Insurance Exchange in Boston, pointed out that some new policies coming to market can even include biological weapons in the definition.
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