This property has a documented history as a public works and maintenance facility predating 1986. Historical insurance policies issued during those prior operations and through 1986 could fund a cleanup.

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.

Air National Guard operations at this Boeing Field location date to the post-WWII era, and the petroleum and solvent contamination now identified in the site's groundwater is consistent with decades of military fueling and maintenance activity. That operational history places the likely origin of contamination well before 1986, when occurrence-based Commercial General Liability policies carried no effective pollution exclusion. The cleanup costs this facility now faces — site investigation, feasibility study, and eventual remediation — could plausibly be funded by historical carriers whose policies were in effect when the contamination first occurred.

Restorical's role is to locate viable historical policies, determine whether a successful coverage claim is possible, and assist our clients and their legal counsel to obtain insurance coverage. Restorical then manages the claim, including accounting, to ensure the cleanup is funded in a timely manner.