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• Terrorism Worries Pushing Insurance Premiums Higher

  BNET - 2004-12-10

  CSC Associates LP, the partnership between Cousins Properties Inc. and C&S Premises that owns Midtown's Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta, paid $834,000 in 2003 for insurance coverage of the Southeast's tallest edifice, according to Cousins' annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That is up from $653,000 in...

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• Terror-Insurance Cost May Go Up

  BNET - 2003-01-24

  Seattle has been ranked a second-tier terrorist target by a national property and liability risk rating agency. That means higher premiums for local property owners that either choose to pay for terrorism insurance or are required to do so by their lenders. While the city's risk of attack ranks well...

  Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., Seattle, Corporate Insurance, Homeland Security, Security, Business Operations, Government

• Companies Ease Into Yoga To Beat Stress Of Sept. 11

  BNET - 2002-01-11

  The September 11 terrorist attacks left so many people asking for mercy and peace. As a result, the work related stress also took over the peoples' minds. Most people suffered severe stress bouts. Thus, most companies adopted various de-stressing methods to bring people back on track. Yoga and meditation exercises...

  Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., Sept. 11, Corporate Insurance, Homeland Security, Business Security, Business Operations, Government

• High Anxiety At Work

  BNET - 2001-11-09

  From the executive summary: ‘The recent terrorist attacks and a fickle economy are the wake-up calls businesses needed. The attacks brought the issue of workplace anxiety and its effect on productivity into focus. Experts, however, suggest that the emphasis on threat of terrorist attacks should not mask many other issues...

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• Insurance Companies Rank St. Louis Low Terrorism Risk

  BNET

  When it comes to insurance loss estimates in the event of a potential terrorist attack, St. Louis ranks on the same level as major metropolitan areas such as Miami, Denver and Dallas. It also ranks in the same category as Effingham, Ill., Knob Lick, Mo., and Sioux City, Iowa -...

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• Terrorist Attacks Put Reinsurance Lobbyists on Alert

  BNET

  Terrorism seems to be on everyone's mind following the July 7 attack on the London underground. It is certainly on the mind of Massachusetts' insurance companies, which along with their national counterparts are lobbying Congress to extend the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. Commonly known as TRIA, the law is...

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• Insurance: Half U.S. Businesses Lack Terrorism Insurance

  BNET

  The total insured-property losses from the September 11 terrorist attacks are expected to hit more than $40 billion, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit organization supported by the property and casualty insurance industry. As the costliest U.S. catastrophe to date, the September 11 terrorist attacks surpassed the insured...

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• Terror Insurance Lures a Few

  BNET

  Bay Area companies are buying terrorism insurance in greater numbers than counterparts in some parts of the country - excluding hot spots such as New York City and Washington, D.C. - but sales are less than robust. In fact, industry sources say many businesses in the region have simply determined...

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• Expiring Terrorism Insurance Act Threatens to Leave Businesses Exposed

  BNET

  The federal government's agreement to back companies that offer terrorism insurance expires at the end of the year, bringing the prospect of sky-high premiums and scarce coverage for local companies in 2006. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, or TRIA, was enacted three years ago in the wake of Sept. 11...

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