April 2004/3

Despite recent action to spoil the appetite of the US plaintiff bar to launch obesity class action suits against the food industry and its insurers (see IQ Winter issue), the increasing prevalence of expanding waistlines is too significant an issue for th

Following recent concerns over the renewal of Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) legislation that provides a federal backstop for terrorism exposures (see April issue of The Insurance Insider), key industry regulators and representative bodies came out t

WTC leaseholder Silverstein Properties and insurers led by reinsurance giant Swiss Re are litigating over which contractual wordings the various parties used in placing the building’s insurance cover.

Increasing global terror is hitting business confidence as a consequence of the rise in high-profile attacks, the rapidly deteriorating position in Iraq, and a proliferation of extremist terror groups, reveals broker Aon with today’s (13 April) launch of