This property has a documented history as a industrial and manufacturing facility going back to 1970. Historical insurance policies issued during those prior operations and through 1986 could recover the cleanup costs already paid.

Why Historical Insurance Policies May Be Accessible

Pre-1986 Commercial General Liability (CGL) policies were occurrence-based and did not contain an effective pollution exclusion in Washington. If contamination occurred while those policies were active, those historical insurance carriers may still have a legal obligation to fund the cleanup costs, even if the business closed or the property changed hands.

Nuclear fuel fabrication operations at this property began in the 1970s — more than a decade before 1986, when occurrence-based Commercial General Liability policies ceased reliably covering pollution claims. The radioactive waste contamination found in groundwater here traces to those decades of pre-1986 industrial operations. Historical carriers who issued CGL policies during the facility's early operational years may be obligated to cover the remediation costs incurred through the RCRA corrective action process that spanned from the 1980s through permit termination in 2019.

Restorical's role is to locate viable historical policies, determine whether a successful cost recovery claim is possible, and assist our clients and their legal counsel to obtain insurance coverage for costs already incurred. Restorical's forensic accounting team works to re-establish and document past cleanup expenditures, ensuring the strongest possible basis for recovery.