All the headlines from our Political Risk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 29 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) is hailing House Financial Services Committee passage of H.R. 4634, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Backstop Extension Act.The Association...
Sep 23 2004 // Responding to increases in the frequency and severity of global terrorist activity in each of the past three years, Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe...
Sep 20 2004 // AIR Worldwide Corp. announced the release of its 2004 U.S. hurricane, earthquake, severe thunderstorm and terrorism models.The updated models reflect the latest scientific and engineering research into these perils, as...
Sep 20 2004 // In a code orange New York, the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) took a fresh look at terrorism and its relation to workers’ compensation at its recent 90th Annual...
Sep 2 2004 // Euro RSCG Worldwide, a leading integrated marketing communications agency, has released the results of an online survey of more than 13,000 respondents in six countries, which found that more people consistently fret about...
Aug 26 2004 // Europe’s leading insurers are reportedly considering several clauses in airline insurance contracts that would exclude coverage for attacks involving chemical, biological and nuclear materials.The effort, headed by...
Aug 23 2004 // AIR Worldwide Corp. announced the release of its 2004 U.S. hurricane, earthquake, severe thunderstorm and terrorism models.The updated models reflect the latest scientific and engineering research into these perils, as...
Aug 20 2004 // In a code orange New York, the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) took a fresh look at terrorism and its relation to workers’ compensation at its recent 90th Annual...
Aug 10 2004 // A little more than a year ago, Britain’s Prince William celebrated his 21st birthday with a costume party at Windsor Castle. While William was addressing the partying crowd, a stranger wearing a black beard, white...
Aug 9 2004 // AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) announced the release of its 2004 U.S. hurricane, earthquake, severe thunderstorm and terrorism models.The updated models reflect the latest scientific and engineering research into these...
Aug 9 2004 // A little more than a year ago, Britain’s Prince William celebrated his birthday with a costume party at Windsor Castle. While William was addressing the partying crowd, a stranger wearing a black beard, white turban...
Jul 22 2004 // The introduction of legislation in the Senate on Thursday to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) by two years “adds to the momentum for congressional action in 2004, and demonstrates bipartisan...
Jul 19 2004 // An industry survey reveals that pricing is the top of concern facing major reinsurers and carriers in 2004, dramatically surpassing last year’s survey results where the top concern was terrorism. According to the...
Jul 8 2004 // New legislation authored by several House Democrats to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) demonstrates strong, bipartisan congressional support for keeping TRIA’s temporary, yet vital, economic...
Jul 8 2004 // James Brache has joined the Zurich business unit providing insurance and risk management solutions in emerging markets as an underwriter. A provider of political risk and medium-term trade credit insurance, Zurich develops...
Jul 2 2004 // An industry survey reveals that pricing is the top of concern facing major reinsurers and carriers in 2004, dramatically surpassing last year’s survey results where the top concern was terrorism.According to the...
Jun 24 2004 // The American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS), a national insurance advisory organization, announced that it is preparing a countrywide filing of new terrorism endorsements insurers can use in anticipation of the...
Jun 21 2004 // I don’t know about you, but I love to attend concerts, festivals, sporting events… just about anything that draws a big crowd. The mass gathering of people brings to the event a certain excitement that smaller...
Jun 21 2004 // I don’t know about you, but I love to attend concerts, festivals, sporting events… just about anything that draws a big crowd. The mass gathering of people brings to the event a certain excitement that smaller...
Jun 14 2004 // A new Rhode Island law allows for a terrorism exclusion from the Standard Fire Policy (SFP) for certain commercial risks. The new law, which became effective last week, amends the state’s Special Commercial Risk...