All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2002 // After a series of meetings with airlines and the insurance industry, Britain’s Treasury Department has agreed to extend the emergency insurance program for the country’s air carriers and service providers until...
Jan 4 2002 // ACE USA announced that it has become a member company of the USAIG aviation pool.Under the agreement, future ACE USA Business Aviation accounts for corporate aviation, non-critical products, pleasure and business aircraft...
Jan 1 2002 // The Teamsters Union has filed a federal lawsuit against Sun Country Airlines for not continuing insurance coverage for furloughed workers.According to the Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minn., the union, representing 340...
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the FutureThis is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth, for...
Dec 3 2001 // The crash on Nov. 12 of American Airlines (AA) Flight 587, an Airbus A-300-600, with the loss of all 260 people on board and 5 on the ground, shocked New Yorkers and the rest of the nation. Coming almost two months to the...
Nov 14 2001 // Insurance companies reportedly face $200 million in claims from the New York City plane crash on Nov. 12, an unwelcome blow for insurers still struggling with major losses from the Sept. 11 attacks.According to Reuters...
Nov 13 2001 // Yesterday’s crash of an American Airlines A-300-600 into a residential neighborhood in Queens is likely to result in claims totaling between $600 and $800 million according to preliminary estimates.While it’s...
Nov 13 2001 // Commercial insurers face a potentially untenable situation if the federal government fails to pass legislation that would help cushion terrorism costs to the industry by the end of November, and if state insurance...
Nov 13 2001 // Unless the government intercedes, Tucson International Airport could face large increases in liability and property insurance rates because of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Associated Press reported the airport could see its...
Nov 8 2001 // 15 Months after a fiery crash in a Paris suburb brought its flights to an abrupt halt, Concorde, the world’s only supersonic commercial aircraft, took to the skies again on two celebrity flights from London’s...
Oct 29 2001 // If the nautical term best applied to the reinsurance industry last year this time would have been “Steady as she goes,” after the catastrophe that struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, the French term “sauve qui...
Oct 29 2001 // After security workers at San Jose International Airport allegedly lost a carry-on bag containing more than $100,000 in jewelry, the bag’s owner attempted to sue for damages. However, a split panel of the 9th U.S....
Oct 22 2001 // As the nation was reeling from tragedy, Robert A. Rusbuldt, CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA), was moving ahead with other industry representatives to ensure that the important role of independent...
Oct 17 2001 // More than a year after the crash near Paris which killed 113 people, Concorde, the world’s only supersonic passenger jet, is set to resume its transatlantic service on November 7. British Airways and Air France...
Oct 15 2001 // After security workers at San Jose International Airport allegedly lost a carry-on bag containing more than $100,000 in jewelry, the bag’s owner attempted to sue for damages. However, a split panel of the 9th U.S....
Oct 15 2001 // As the nation was reeling from tragedy, Robert A. Rusbuldt, CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA), was moving ahead with other industry representatives to ensure that the important role of independent...
Oct 9 2001 // All 110 persons aboard a Scandinavian Airlines flight bound for Copenhagen died when the airplane collided with a private plane at Milan’s fog-shrouded Linate airport, veered off the runway into a baggage hangar,...
Oct 8 2001 // While most Asian National Flag carriers have been able to obtain government assistance to meet new insurance demands for war and terrorist risk cover, smaller airlines are still seeking solutions, heightened by increased...
Oct 8 2001 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) has announced that its member companies have completed the placement, on behalf of the co-insurance market, of aviation war risk and hijacking liability coverage that makes available...