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Environmental insurance

Protecting your business starts with understanding your goals.

Knowledge and guidance

Whether you own property, a construction company or a manufacturing firm, you face potential environmental liabilities. Our experts can help you manage them, with guidance in contractor’s pollution legal liability policies, site-specific environmental liability coverage, real estate transactional policies and storage tank liability policies.

Your Lockton team will evaluate your current and potential future liabilities before developing a risk transfer plan that gives your company financial stability if you experience a loss. We take a creative approach to marketing and placing coverage, using our experience and relationships with insurance carriers to negotiate the best terms possible.

Specialist solutions

Our specialists will provide you with solutions to meet:

  • Board of directors objectives

  • Contract requirements

  • Landlord requirements

  • Lender requirements

  • Regulatory obligations

  • Shareholders’ needs

Latest news & insights

A host of tariff-related developments has companies in a state of uncertainty and exposes directors and officers to new compliance, litigation, and disclosure risks. Learn how D&O insurance can safeguard leadership and corporate balance sheets from tariff-related risks. Ongoing tariff uncertainty gives rise to D&O coverage questions

Lockton Appoints Kelly Thoerig as its D&O and EPL Product Leader

Lockton, the world's largest privately held insurance brokerage, is pleased to announce the appointment of Kelly Thoerig as its new U.S. Directors and Officers Liability (D&O) and Employment Practices Liability (EPL) Product Leader within its Professional & Executive Risk division. Lockton, the world's largest privately held insurance brokerage, is pleased to announce the appointment of Kelly Thoerig as its new U.S. Directors and Officers Liability (D&O) and Employment Practices Liability (EPL) Product Leader within its Professional & Executive Risk division.

Denmark increases parental leave for parents of hospitalized newborn children

Denmark is significantly increasing government-paid leave for parents of hospitalized newborn children from a combined total of three months for both parents to 12 months for each parent. This extension will also apply to “early homestays,” where medical treatment is provided at home instead of in hospital, rather than only to hospitalized cases. 

These changes will take effect from 1 January 2026 and apply to parents of children born or adopted on or after 1 January 2026.
Denmark is significantly increasing government-paid leave for parents of hospitalized newborn children from a combined total of three months for both parents to 12 months for each parent. This extension will also apply to “early homestays,” where medical treatment is provided at home instead of in hospital, rather than only to hospitalized cases. 

These changes will take effect from 1 January 2026 and apply to parents of children born or adopted on or after 1 January 2026.

France introduces additional rights for employees engaged in medically assisted conception or adoption processes

France has implemented new employer-paid leave entitlements for male employees to attend necessary appointments related to medically assisted conception treatment, as well as for all employees, regardless of gender, to attend mandatory interviews required during the adoption process. In addition, anti-discrimination protections have been strengthened for employees engaged in medically assisted conception or adoption. These changes took effect on 2 July 2025.


France has implemented new employer-paid leave entitlements for male employees to attend necessary appointments related to medically assisted conception treatment, as well as for all employees, regardless of gender, to attend mandatory interviews required during the adoption process. In addition, anti-discrimination protections have been strengthened for employees engaged in medically assisted conception or adoption. These changes took effect on 2 July 2025.
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