TRIA News
Life Without TRIA: Zurich, ACE Execs Debate Terror Coverage Strategies
Two weeks before the Senate introduced legislation to extend the federal terror insurance backstop, carrier executives revealed opposing plans for offering coverage to customers exposed to terror ...
Nearly Half of Security Execs Say Insurers Alone Should Pay Costs of Physical Terror Attacks
Forty-seven percent of security executives across of a variety of industries believe that private insurance companies alone should pay for worker injuries and property damage in the aftermath of a ...
Four Airlines Win Terror Insurance Extension
U.S. government insurance that guarantees airlines are covered against terrorism and war was extended for four carriers, including Virgin America Inc., that otherwise would have lost coverage at the ...
Fast Money Hedge Funds Won’t Keep Pension Funds Out of Terror Market, Says ILS Manager
To understand why the insurance-linked securities market will offer greater amounts of terror risk coverage in the years ahead, you have to understand the difference between two groups of ILS ...
TRIA Changes Debated: Congressional Hearing Highlights
Representatives of the property/casualty insurance industry all testified in favor of extending the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act during a House Financial Services committee hearing last week, but ...
We Can Write Terror Risk: Part II
The leader of a firm thought to be the world's largest investment manager of catastrophe bonds told federal lawmakers last week that the insurance-linked securities market is poised to provide ...
We Can Write Terror Risk, Industry Execs Say
At least two property/casualty insurance and reinsurance industry executives highlighted the industry's capacity to write terrorism coverage during recent earnings calls, with the most forceful ...
Does, Should, Will TRIA Cover Cyber Terrorism?
The insurance industry will count on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) if there is a terrorist strike on the United States, but will the program respond if the act of terrorism is a cyber ...