November 13, 2014
Essex Insurance Co. reached a tentative settlement on Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Justice and other parties in a coverage dispute over $22 million that a defunct Washington scrap metal business allegedly owed the federal government for cleaning up an oil spill in the Columbia River.
April 04, 2014
Essex Insurance Co. filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in a bid to escape covering the $22 million a defunct Washington state scrap metal business allegedly owes the U.S. government over a botched effort to dismantle a barge that caused an oil slick in the Columbia River.