As a landscaper’s insurance niche agent with many landscaper clients, I felt it would be important to share information about the herbicide known as Imprelis. Lots of landscapers and turf management firms in our area use Imprelis, but recently it has been linked to damages to evergreens on lawns and golf courses in the North Carolina area as well as other states along the Eastern seaboard.
Dupont manufactures Imprelis and they have publicly communicated their desire to promptly and fairly resolve problems associated with it. You can visit the web site that Dupont set up for help with Imprelis at www.imprelis-facts.com. Dupont also set up a toll free hotline number, 866-796-4783, so that people with damages can report them more easily. If you have any clients that have experienced damage to trees or shrubs due to the use of Imprelis, encourage them to contact Dupont through the website or the hotline phone number. Also, the web site states that by mid-August, Dupont will start a product return and refund procedure and you may want to follow the news for your refunds there.
With this information provided by Dupont regarding potential damages posed by the use of Imprelis, you might decide to discontinue its use. I would recommend that you retain any unused Imprelis product that has been prepared as it might be important for any possible refunds. As I stated earlier, the website can keep up to date on any product return and refund procedures.
Here at Clinard Insurance Group, in Winston Salem, NC, we insure landscaping companies of all stripes, from lawn maintenance companies to landscape architects to nurseries. We want all landscapers to be informed insurance consumers and that mission extends here to helping you with information that you may not have discovered yet regarding Imprelis. If we can help you with your landscaping insurance needs, please call us, toll free, at 877-687-7557, or visit us on the web at www.LowRatesForLandscapers.com.
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