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Waste & Recycling

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Lockton’s expert team works with waste haulers, recycling companies, and landfill owners to design insurance solutions that protect them from premises liability, pollution liability, employee injury, and third-party liability.

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You’ll benefit from Lockton’s relationships with the world’s most reputable insurers. Add our in-house risk management and claim cost control specialists, and you have the resources you need on a global scale.

Waste & Recycling expertise includes pollution exposures, fleet exposures – the frequency of small third-party claims and the possibility of large severity over-the-road claims, premises exposures - landfill accidents, high hazard workers’ compensation exposures - employees riding on the side or back of trucks and other risks, and medical waste exposures.

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