This property has a documented history as a industrial and manufacturing facility predating 1986. Historical insurance policies issued during those prior operations and through 1986 could recover the cleanup costs already paid.
Roger's Hangar at Bremerton National Airport in Kitsap County was the subject of an Ecology initial investigation (ERTS #8903) beginning in March 1992, which identified releases of petroleum products and metals into soil and groundwater at the hangar site. Cleanup work under the Voluntary Cleanup Program spanned from 1992 through 1999, addressing both petroleum hydrocarbon and metals contamination in groundwater and soil. Ecology issued a No Further Action determination in February 2000, and both contaminant categories in groundwater are classified as remediated. That history could support an insurance cost recovery claim against carriers who issued insurance policies 40+ years ago.
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.
Bremerton National Airport is a long-established aviation facility in Kitsap County, and the petroleum and metals contamination remediated at Roger's Hangar is consistent with decades of fuel handling and maintenance operations that predate 1986. Operators and tenants who stored and dispensed aviation fuel at this hangar during that pre-1986 window would have held occurrence-based CGL policies with no effective pollution exclusion — policies that remain enforceable under Washington law. The remediation expenditures documented across eight years of cleanup at Roger's Hangar represent costs those historical carriers may still be obligated to cover.
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.
Recovering Costs from an Older Cleanup
If this site reached No Further Action years ago, the original cleanup expenditures may be difficult to reconstruct. Restorical's forensic accounting team specializes in re-establishing and documenting past cleanup costs — even decades later — to build the strongest possible basis for an insurance recovery claim.
What We Look For
- Historical insurance policies (pre-1986)
- Policy numbers, carrier names, and coverage periods
- Connection between contamination timing and policy period
- Evidence linking cleanup obligation to insured activity
What We Deliver
- Historical Coverage Chart
- Trigger Analysis & Property/Policy Nexus
- Coverage strategy with recommendations
- Insurance funding for your remediation
- Claims Management & Forensic Accounting
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