All the headlines from our Political Risk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 14 2004 // A broad-based coalition of property/casualty insurance company, insurance producer and reinsurance trade associations commended the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for adopting a resolution...
May 17 2004 // Over the past three decades, 80 percent of the terrorist attacks against the United States have been directed against American businesses in foreign locations. In 2001, about 400 American businesses were attacked. Compared...
May 6 2004 // It seems like almost every day there is a major news story concerning a terrorist act in the Middle East, Europe, or Asia. While the United States has been largely immune to the almost daily attacks of domestic terrorism...
May 3 2004 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has asked state regulators to approve conditional commercial policy contract language to address terrorism coverage should Congress not extend the federal terrorism insurance backstop...
Apr 29 2004 // Independent reinsurance intermediary Benfield announced that the U.S. Treasury Department has selected its subsidiary, Paragon Strategic Solutions Inc., a provider of reinsurance administration and asset recovery services,...
Apr 27 2004 // U.S. officials and insurance companies representing Sept. 11 victims are locked in an unusual legal standoff, stemming from the government’s refusal to admit it has the alleged mastermind of the attacks in...
Apr 22 2004 // U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg and New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. will host a press conference today, April 22, at 1:30 PM, to announce an amendment to the upcoming FSC-ETI bill to close a loophole...
Apr 22 2004 // The nation’s terrorism insurance law is not necessary to ensure the availability of affordable terrorism coverage for most areas of the country and should be allowed to expire, according to a study released by the...
Apr 19 2004 // Industry executives in the workers’ compensation field from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas Feb. 5-6 for the 5th Annual AMCOMP (American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc.) Meeting &...
Apr 19 2004 // March 11, 2004 now joins Sept. 11, 2001 as dates no one now living will ever forget.The sheer horror of watching the aftermath of 10 separate explosions on the Spanish rail network in Madrid brought home the brutal...
Apr 19 2004 // March 11, 2004 now joins Sept. 11, 2001 as dates no one now living will ever forget.The sheer horror of watching the aftermath of 10 separate explosions on the Spanish rail network in Madrid brought home the brutal...
Apr 15 2004 // The private insurance industry for workers’ compensation would not have enough capital to withstand potential losses on its own should a catastrophic terrorism event, or multiple events, occur, according to the...
Apr 5 2004 // Industry executives in the workers’ compensation field from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas recently for the 5th Annual AMCOMP (American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc.) Meeting &...
Mar 22 2004 // Two years later, fate of the historic act remains unknownIf a camel is a “horse made by a committee” then the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), passed by Congress in November 2002, is a law made by several...
Mar 8 2004 // Industry executives in the workers’ compensation field from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas Feb. 5-6 for the 5th Annual AMCOMP (American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc.) Meeting &...
Mar 8 2004 // The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) demanded a retraction and an apology from American Insurance Group CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg for calling them “terrorist trial lawyers” in a...
Feb 27 2004 // The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) announced it has demanded a retraction and an apology from American Insurance Group CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg for calling them “terrorist trial...
Feb 25 2004 // California’s Risk Management Solutions, a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, announced that it is providing funding for the first visiting research fellowship to be established...
Feb 23 2004 // Some have viewed this law as a bailout of a failed insurance industry; we believe just the opposite is true.When Congress passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002, some heralded the act as a panacea for...
Feb 18 2004 // Insurance Services Office, Inc.’s (ISO) A-PLUS unit has unveiled a new service insurers can use to cross-check policyholders against a U.S. Department of the Treasury master watch list to ensure that customers are...