Background
Michael O. Hill contributes articles on environmental
issues for IRMI.com.
Mr. Hill has almost 30 years of experience as an attorney, insurance broker,
and corporate officer. His practice is focused on: (1) brownfield cleanup and
redevelopment; (2) environmental due diligence and cost quantification and
management in the contexts of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, bankruptcies
and litigation; and (3) "dovetailing" companies' commercial and
captive insurance policies to ensure that coverage is efficient and
comprehensive.
Mr. Hill previously served as Chair of Marsh's Environmental Practice
(then the world's largest environmental insurance brokerage); as a private
attorney at Covington & Burling and Hill & Kehne; and as General
Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of the $773M Environmental Trust created by
the Bankruptcy Court, U.S. Government and 14 States to remediate and redevelop
the 89 properties left behind in GM’s 2009 bankruptcy, the largest Trust of its
kind, the largest industrial bankruptcy, and the largest brownfield undertaking
in U.S. history.
Mr. Hill is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School, a member of
the Bar in New York, Vermont and Washington, D.C., and a licensed surplus lines
insurance broker. His offices are in Washington, D.C. and Vermont, the home of
more captive insurance companies than any other state.