All the headlines from our Political Risk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 1 2010 // Marsh has launched its innovative Mobile Asset and Commodity Expropriation (MACE) insurance facility, which, it said will “meet the increased concern of multinational companies about the rise in political risks...
Sep 30 2010 // Starr Underwriting Agents Limited and Starr Specialty Lines Insurance Agency, LLC (“Starr Specialty”), both subsidiaries of C. V. Starr & Co., Inc., have recently expanded their geographic reach with the...
Sep 28 2010 // C.V. Starr & Co. said it has opened a Political Risks underwriting unit in New York City. Keith Dunford has been named underwriting manager for the unit, which will market Political Risks products as well as structured...
Sep 22 2010 // U.S. RE ApS, the European subsidiary of U.S. RE Corporation, international reinsurance brokers, has been selected by Finanstilsynet, the Danish financial Supervisory Authority, to conduct a study of terrorism risk...
Aug 10 2010 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions has enhanced its terrorism risk model, adding in more details for international cities and higher resolution hazard information and refinements to human exposure and building...
Aug 6 2010 // The head of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd said he does not rule out the possibility that terrorism was behind an explosion that damaged a Japanese supertanker, the Nikkei business daily said on Friday.“We do not have the...
Jun 24 2010 // U.S. terrorism insurance purchase rates continued to climb in 2009 as companies of all sizes and across all industries continued to buy terrorism coverage, according to a report by global broker Marsh.Sixty-one percent of...
Jun 24 2010 // International specialty insurer, ACE Global Markets (AGM), has opened a new U.S. Political Risk and Credit operation based in Los Angeles. The office will serve the West Coast region and will be is headed by Ray Tizabi as...
Jun 14 2010 // The heads of all the national terrorism insurance programs of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development) member countries met earlier this month at the OECD headquarters in Paris in an attempt to...
Jun 3 2010 // Guy Carpenter, Marsh’s reinsurance brokerage and risk assessment division, has published “Terrorism: Reinsurers Standing By.” It concludes that “insurers and reinsurers have become increasingly...
Jun 3 2010 // In conjunction with the release of the latest version of its “Terrorism Threat Map,” Aon’s Crisis Management division analyzes the current state of the ongoing efforts to combat terrorist activities. The...
Mar 30 2010 // The threat of terrorism in the U.S. is rising but the future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is in question. At a time when top U.S. officials warn of an imminent attack that might be hard to prevent, the...
Mar 22 2010 // The Climate Change debate rolls on, but real decisions and effective actions remain elusive. Hardly a week goes by without a new report or study on the changes affecting the atmosphere, but the general public appears to be...
Mar 22 2010 // Because of the threshold amount, many acts of domestic terrorism may not be certified. Even under the TRIA, insurers may exclude coverage for loss resulting from ‘non-certified’ acts of terrorism.After the...
Mar 8 2010 // The threat of terrorism in the United States is rising, but the future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is in question. At a time when top U.S. officials warn of an imminent attack that might be difficult to...
Mar 7 2010 // The threat of domestic terrorism is rising, but the future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is in question. At a time when top U.S. officials warn of an imminent attack, the government may scale back its...
Mar 7 2010 // The threat of terrorism in the U.S. is rising but the future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is in question. At a time when top U.S. officials warn of an imminent attack that might be hard to prevent, the...
Mar 7 2010 // Austin, Texas, Police Chief Art Acevedo stopped short of calling the crashing of a small plane into a commercial office building in northwest Austin on Feb. 18 a terrorist act, but U.S. Representative Mike McCaul said he...
Mar 5 2010 // Singapore said on Friday it had raised alert levels in the city-state and beefed up security at its airport and new casino resorts after a warning of possible attacks on oil tankers in the Malacca Strait. [See IJ web site...
Feb 19 2010 // Austin, Texas, Police Chief Art Acevedo stopped short of calling the crashing of a small plane into a commercial office building in northwest Austin on Feb. 18 a terrorist act, but U.S. Representative Mike McCaul said he...