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Environmental liabilities can have a significant impact on a company’s financial health, especially as the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for CERCLA (Superfund) cleanup and other regulatory activity has increased. Most environmental claims implicate a company’s historical insurance coverage. Understanding how that coverage works and developing a strategy to maximize insurance recoveries are crucial to limiting the impact of environmental liabilities. The firm’s insurance coverage attorneys have recovered billions of dollars for clients by negotiating and when necessary, litigating, environmental insurance coverage claims by using unique strategies tailored to the client. For example, the firm has obtained settlements and won jury trials for public utilities with environmental liabilities involving sites where gas was manufactured for up to 100 years before the advent of the natural gas pipeline system in the 1950s.