Jim Hamilton

Background

About Jim Hamilton

Jim is the practice Leader for the CRC Environmental Insurance and Risk Management Unit specializing in environmental insurance and environmental risk management consultation. Jim has over 25 years of Environmental Risk Management experience in the insurance brokerage and environmental claims settlement business. Jim is one of the Key Personnel for a contract with the United States Environmental Protection Agency as the US EPA’s “Environmental Insurance Expert,” providing “Insurance Expert Support for Superfund Enforcement Settlements and Case Work” for various US EPA divisions. Jim is also the first broker to have used Environmental Cost Cap insurance as a Financial Assurance instrument for a US EPA Superfund Site in US EPA Region V. He is on the Executive Committee of the Colorado Brownfields Association and has been a speaker and written articles for numerous environmental insurance seminars.Before joining CRC Environmental (formerly Crump, TriCity and JCH Environmental), Jim was a Director of Dispute Resolution Management, Inc.(DRM), an international consulting firm that specializes in Environmental, Asbestos, Product Liability and Insolvent Carrier claim settlements. DRM’s projects included detailed insurance policy archaeology, policy form review, environmental claim quantification and qualification, claim allocation to historical coverage, settlement targeting and review/development of post-settlement risk transfer options. Specialties: The Environmental Unit operates in all 50 States with core competencies in:•Pollution Legal Liability•Contractors Pollution Liability•OPPI•Excess Coverage•Project-Specific and Wrap Placements•Commercial and Residential Contractors•Environmental Consultants and Contractors•Real Estate Transactions•Chemical Facilities•Industrial/Commercial Facilities•Fire & Water Restoration Contractors•Asbestos Liability•Mergers & Acquisitions•Analysis of technical environmental data