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By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 14, 2012
Prompted by a lobbying group that
supports efforts to reduce global warming, three insurance companies and the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) have publicly renounced their support for the Heartland Institute, a libertarian research group.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 9, 2012
The Heartland Institute and its insurance-centric Washington unit are negotiating a divorce, a process said to be accelerated by distress over the institute’s now-suspended ad campaign linking support for global warming with serial killers.
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By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com, Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 8, 2012
Prompted by a lobbying group that supports efforts to reduce global warming, three insurance companies and the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers have publicly renounced their support for the Heartland Institute, a libertarian research group.
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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 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 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 Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 19, 2011
If you think the Japan earthquake and Mississippi flooding presented problems with the manufacturing supply chain, consider the business implications of some 2 billion people worldwide just up and disappearing on Saturday.
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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.
