Hiscox, a specialty insurance company, has launched a new line of terrorism insurance geared for health care providers, hospitals and researchers. Hiscox claims that this is the first insurance product of its kind to be offered in the U.S. It would seem that such insurance coverage would fit well in a nation that has been on heightened awareness for terrorism for the past 10 years. However, no major attack has occurred on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001. Whether Hiscox’s new insurance offering will be successful in light of this…
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AIR Worldwide Updates Terrorism Model for the U.S.
NEW ORLEANS – Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) released an update to its terrorism model for the United States. The model, which is used by insurers and reinsurers to assess potential losses to property and workers compensation risks, reflects less frequent and lower-severity attacks based on a reassessment of the threat by a team of leading terrorism experts. “AIR’s team of operational threat analysis experts includes the FBI’s former head of counterterrorism and members of the CIA responsible for developing terrorist group profiling,” said Jack Seaquist, assistant vice…
Read MoreLloyd’s of London files suit against prominent organizations in Saudi Arabia holding them responsible for 9/11 attacks
The attacks against the U.S. on September 11, 2001, have had a profound impact on nearly every aspect of life throughout the whole of the world. Terrorism is now a word that nearly everyone knows, a word that invokes varying degrees of discomfort for those that hear it. While many caught in the attacks have finally begun to put the broken pieces of their lives back together, Lloyd’s of London, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, has filed a federal lawsuit against those it believes are responsible…
Read MoreTrillium Software helps insurers and reinsurers obtain more robust catastrophe modelling results
MONTE CARLO, Monaco & BILLERICA, MA – Sept. 13, 2011 – Trillium Software(r), a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS), and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, announced today an agreement with AIR Worldwide, the scientific leader and most respected provider of catastrophe risk modelling software, to provide more precise geocoding through the integration of Trillium Software’s geospatial capabilities with AIR’s catastrophe modelling application. The integrated software solution is expected to help AIR Worldwide’s clients improve risk geocoding and catastrophe risk analyses for perils such as wind, flood, and…
Read MoreHow to measure the risk of terror
Post anniversary to September 11, the horrible event occurring over ten years ago now, there has been a tremendous change to the way that border security and terrorism have been viewed in the United States. This is true of the government, businesses, individuals, and the insurance industry, which suffered tremendous losses to its own people when the planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Though damages resulting from acts of terrorism had been covered in typical all-risk commercial policies before the attacks, after…
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