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Forever Chemicals: understanding and responding to the threat of PFAs (With Crispin Halsall)

Forever Chemicals: understanding and responding to the threat of PFAs (With Crispin Halsall)

Update: 2025-01-06
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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In the first episode of season 6, Peter is joined by Crispin Halsall, and in this episode they discuss all things forever chemicals and PFAS.


In this episode we cover:


  • What is meant by the term Forever Chemicals and PFAS.
  • Why PFAS are called forever chemicals
  • The extent of PFAS contamination. (Every human has trace amounts of PFAS in their body).
  • What regulators can do to tackle this problem.
  • Expected PFAs claims volumes are set to increase.
  • What the future of PFAs looks like


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Forever Chemicals: understanding and responding to the threat of PFAs (With Crispin Halsall)

Forever Chemicals: understanding and responding to the threat of PFAs (With Crispin Halsall)