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By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 25, 2012
The world has become statistically less stable with civil unrest downgraded in 37 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain, in light of European austerity measures and spending cuts.
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By Anthony C. Roman |
April 25, 2012
Recent debacles featured in the news remind us that flying is a remarkable leap of faith routinely taken by millions of travelers worldwide.
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By Anthony Roman |
April 10, 2012
The recent JetBlue debacle has drawn national alarm. Although in-flight disruptions by flight crews are rare, they do happen. Pondering the mysteries behind the cockpit door and the real risks of flying.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 28, 2012
A U.S. district-court judge has awarded a group of insurers $9.35 billion after entering a final judgment against Hezbollah in a lawsuit over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 25, 2012
With the death of Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders reducing the organization’s operational environment, terrorist threats to the U.S. are likely to involve smaller bomb plots perpetrated by Al Qaeda-influenced homegrown terrorists rather than attacks on the scale of September 11, according to Risk Management Solutions.
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By Gordon Woo |
September 9, 2011
Strategic surprise is a precious weapon in terrorist campaigns. Al Qaida managed to achieve this spectacularly on 9/11. Since then, counterterrorism efforts have been improved considerably, both within the American homeland and abroad. The result of this much-heightened state of alert: Out of dozens of significant jihadi terrorist plots against...
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 15, 2011
The obituary for al-Qaida has been written multiple times since the U.S. began a war on terrorism following Sept. 11, but each has been premature.
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By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com |
June 1, 2011
Are you afraid to travel? Just as vacation season begins, the media bombards with concerns about travel safety, with many worried that traveling in the U.S. will become more dangerous if al-Qaeda tries to retaliate for last month’s ambush and killing of Osama bin Laden.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 2, 2011
The death of Osama bin Laden is good news to insurers—and to the U.S.—due to the manner in which operatives cornered the Al Qaeda leader, but by no means should it promote a dropping of the guard in the industry, says Gordon Woo, a catastrophist with Risk Management Solutions.
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By Staff Writer |
July 13, 2010
The likelihood of a successful full-scale terrorist attack is directly correlated with the number of operatives involved in the planning, a catastrophe modeler said.
