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National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Chapman & Valley |
Terrorism Insurance: Why Owners Are Balking Not all property owners are buying coverage. Many landlords who believe their properties pose a low risk for a terrorist attack are declining to accept coverage because they think it's too pricey or unnecessary. The repurcussions of this are felt throughout the industry. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2005 Matt Hudgins |
Capital Hill Rallies To Extend TRIA A week after suicide bombers killed 57 people at U.S.-branded hotels in Jordan, leaders introduced legislation to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002. That's good news for U.S. businesses, roughly half of which have added terrorism coverage to their property insurance. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2005 Matt Hudgins |
Who Will Bear the Risk of Terror? Insurance policyholders in 47 states are in jeopardy of losing coverage on terrorism-related losses after Dec. 31 of this year. The construction, purchase and leasing of new buildings and shopping malls, etc., could be cancelled or postponed if the federal backstop expires. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Thomas Bisacquino |
A Much-Needed Morale Boost For more than a year, organizations representing commercial real estate owners pressed for enactment of The Terrorism Insurance Act of 2002. The bill, signed into law by President George W. Bush late last year, gives the industry a shot of optimism needed for a faster recovery. |
Real Estate Portfolio Mar/Apr 2005 David E. Simon |
Ensuring Terror Insurance Continues The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act is currently set to expire on Dec. 31, 2005 creating a great deal of uncertainty for real estate owners and the insurance marketplace. |
Insurance & Technology April 6, 2006 Maria Woehr |
Cover Your Assets Insurers must focus on internal risk management rather than depend on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, which is set to expire in two years, to mitigate losses from a terrorist attack, according to Risk Management Solutions. |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2004 Jonathan L. Kempner |
A Rallying Cry for TRIA Extension Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) kept ratings agencies from lowering ratings on loans in the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market, allowing borrowers to obtain terrorism insurance coverage at a reasonable cost. |
CFO Russ Banham |
Pray As You Go Without a government safety net, companies are left with little coverage against terrorist attacks... |
National Real Estate Investor June 20, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Manhattan Landlord Stalls Lenders In Terrorism Insurance Dispute The New York Supreme Court has ruled that two lenders cannot hold the owner of 4 Times Square, a major Manhattan office building, in default for not buying adequate terrorism insurance. |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
An Invisible Threat Commercial buildings are ill-quipped to thwart nuclear, biological and chemical agent attacks, which are excluded from terrorism insurance policies. |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2003 Traci Purdum |
Preparing For The Worst Turbulent times call for manufacturers to assess their risks when it comes to potential terrorist attacks. |
Knowledge@Wharton May 7, 2003 |
To Pay or Not to Pay: Business Weighs the Cost of Terrorism Coverage Nearly two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, businesses continue to evaluate the threat of another catastrophe and try to gauge their own exposure to it. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Insurance: From Perfect Storm To Nearly Perfect Few catastrophes and strong investment returns are boosting profits. More consolidation is likely as players jostle for market share. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2004 Mark Mahorney |
The Cost of Terrorism What does insurers' exposure to terrorism really mean to investors? |
Insurance & Technology August 12, 2005 Katherine Burger |
Life Goes On In terms of protecting IT and maintaining operations, much has been learned and accomplished by the industry in the nearly four years since Sept. 11, 2001. |
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2002 Chris De Reza |
Keeping an Eye on Insurance Over the past year, rising insurance premiums, reduced capacity and increasingly restrictive coverage have pushed insurance to the forefront for many participants in, and observers of, the real estate industry. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Insurance Industry Conference Looks at Terrorism, Drug Coverage, Malpractice Insurance and M&As The role of government in supplementing the private insurance industry and the industry's response to terrorism were recurrent themes at the seventh annual conference of Wharton's Financial Institutions Center and the Brookings Institution held earlier this month. |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman |
An Insurance Storm One month into hurricane season, commercial property owners along the Gulf and Florida coasts are coming to grips with the jaw-dropping costs of insuring against future hurricanes. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2002 Karen M. Kroll |
Ensuring Your Insurance Companies face higher commercial insurance rates, a weaker industry. What steps can managers and CFOs take to make sure that their firms can obtain the insurance coverage they need, at a price that makes sense? |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2007 G.M. Filisko |
Tax Breaks in Jeopardy? The battle lines have been drawn in Congress over the federal budget for fiscal year 2007. Real estate industry experts fear casualties will be bedrock tax breaks for the commercial real estate industry. |
Bank Systems & Technology August 2, 2005 Katherine Burger |
Life Goes On For financial institutions, in terms of protecting IT and maintaining operations, much has been learned and accomplished by the industry in the nearly four years since Sept. 11, 2001. |
Registered Rep. January 18, 2011 Alan Lavine |
Insurers Raising Premiums, Changing Terms on Long-term Care Policies If you're selling long-term care insurance to clients, it's best to stay away from carriers with a history of raising premiums or discontinuing other types of insurance coverage. |
The Motley Fool December 5, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Can You Afford This Bailout? Companies including MetLife, Manulife Financial's John Hancock division, and Genworth Financial have increased long-term care premiums -- increases that many policyholders never expected to see. |
Insurance & Technology January 17, 2006 Maria Woehr |
Constant Change The coming year's regulatory and political agenda could result in requirements for reform and increasing technology investments, which could alter the business environment for property and casualty, life, and health insurers alike. |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2007 Emil Lee |
Disaster Preparedness: Are Insurers Ready for the Big One? With private insurers withdrawing from the coastal areas, leaving the taxpayers holding the bag, one wonders: What should investors do if the big one does hit? |
Reason May 2007 Jacob Sullum |
Hurricanes Happen Insurance price controls in Florida: The state legislature is ordering insurance companies to charge less for homeowner's policies. |
Registered Rep. April 13, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Treasury Extend TARP to Life Insurers--If They Qualify The Treasury made an announcement last Wednesday that sent life insurance stocks soaring the following day. |
Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Deena M. Amato-McCoy |
Eye of the Storm Insurers that implement processes and technologies for accurately assessing data and measuring risk across business lines and geographies before disaster strikes will weather the storm. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both Ways Requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions needs to go hand-in-hand with requiring healthy people to purchase insurance. |
The Motley Fool May 5, 2004 |
Whole Life vs. Term Life Whole and term are the two main forms of life insurance you should understand. Buy the kind of insurance that makes the most sense for you. |
Parameters Spring 2004 Matthew J. Morgan |
The Origins of the New Terrorism A history of terrorism and where it's headed. |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2007 Matt Hudgins |
Leading a Full-Court Press Column Financial's Kieran Quinn helped the MBA lobby for passage and then renewal of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), a federal backstop that enables insurance companies to offer affordable terrorism insurance. |
CFO August 1, 2007 |
Chilling Thoughts The Chilling Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley... Extending Terrorism Insurance... Powering Your Company's Computers... etc. |