The FBI reports that the number of active shooter episodes increased by a whopping 66.7% during 2022 in comparison to their 2018 statistics. The FBI reports that the number of active shooter episodes increased by a whopping 66.7% during 2022 in comparison to their 2018 statistics. Photo: Big54/Adobe Stock

No organization can afford to go without active assailant insurance coverage these days. By mid-July 2023, there were more than 400 reported mass shootings in the United States, the earliest point in the calendar year this deadly milestone was reached since 2013.

In revealing just how widespread liability is and how far it can reach, following a 2022 bench trial, a district court judge ordered the United States government to pay $230 million in damages to the survivors and families of 26 people killed in the November 5, 2017, mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The gunman, a former member of the Air Force, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the massacre.

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