Latest Business Interruption Headlines

All the headlines from our Business Interruption Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Catastrophic Events Raise BI Coverage Questions

Nov 18 2007 // Several recent and relatively recent events — the wildfires in southern California, Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — have raised awareness of how, and whether, business...

House-passed flood insurance bill provides optional windstorm coverage

Oct 8 2007 // The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure updating the nation’s flood insurance program that will give homeowners the option of purchasing windstorm coverage as part of their flood policy.The legislation...

News Currents

Oct 8 2007 // House-passed flood insurance bill provides optional windstorm coverageThe U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure updating the nation’s flood insurance program that will give homeowners the option of...

House-Passed Flood Insurance Bill Includes Windstorm, Business Interruption Options

Sep 28 2007 // The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure updating the nation’s flood insurance program that will give homeowners the option of purchasing windstorm coverage as part of their flood policy.The legislation...

West Joins Marsh UK Business Continuity Team

Sep 5 2007 // Marsh UK announced that Vince West has joined its London office as a managing consultant within its Business Continuity Management team. He will be responsible for developing and delivering the firm’s business...

Marsh Warns UK Law Firms to Address Business Continuity

May 21 2007 // In a recent bulletin Marsh UK warned British law firms that they should be addressing their business continuity management (BCM) responsibilities before the implementation of rules contained in a new...

Joseph Joins Marsh UK’s FACS Team

May 10 2007 // Marsh UK announced that business interruption specialist Josephine Joseph has joined the broker’s European Forensic Accounting and Claims Services (FACS).She joins FACS from Matson, Driscoll & Damico UK LLP,...

Bipartisan flood insurance ‘modernization’ bill boosts borrowing, maximum limits

Apr 9 2007 // News CurrentsU.S. Reps. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., introduced bipartisan legislation to revamp the National Flood Insurance Program that boosts the program’s borrowing authority to $21.5...

Bipartisan Flood Insurance ‘Modernization’ Bill Boosts Borrowing, Maximum Limits

Mar 27 2007 // U.S. Reps. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., introduced bipartisan legislation to revamp the National Flood Insurance Program that boosts the program’s borrowing authority to $21.5 billion, increases...

Commercial clients ‘swallow a bitter pill’ when it comes to cat coverage

Feb 12 2007 // When it comes to property catastrophe insurance coverage, many commercial clients are being forced to swallow a bitter pill in the form of steep prices, new limits on policies, higher deductibles and a shortage in the...

Commercial clients ‘swallow a bitter pill’ when it comes to cat coverage

Feb 11 2007 // When it comes to property catastrophe insurance coverage, many commercial clients are being forced to swallow a bitter pill in the form of steep prices, new limits on policies, higher deductibles and a shortage in the...

Coping with catastrophe

Jan 29 2007 // Ten things agents and brokers can do to help clients obtain adequate cat coverageWhen it comes to property catastrophe insurance coverage, many commercial clients are being forced to swallow a bitter pill in the form of...

2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products

Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...

2006 New Markets Report

Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management LiabilityNew P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically for...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages

Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Oct 23 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...