Washington Bureau - NU Online News Service

The decision by White House officials and congressional leaders to keep group life insurance out of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was a "terrible mistake," a former state regulator said Monday.

"A catastrophic attack would put significant pressure on the [group life] industry," Gregory Serio said here during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting, Falls Church, Va.

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