IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/gpprii/v27y2002i2p288-294.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Public Role of Insurers in Man-Made Catastrophes

Author

Listed:
  • Gordon Stewart

    (President, Insurance Information Institute, New York, USA)

Abstract

As the largest insured event in history, the World Trade Center disaster encompasses almost every line of insurance, from life and property to workers' compensation and business interruption. Hundreds of insurers and reinsurers worldwide are feeling the impact. Legal and contractual questions regarding coverage will go on for years.Apart from its effects on insurance, how the industry's response is portrayed in the media will influence its public standing for years to come. This paper looks at the enormity of this disaster primarily from the communications experience of the Insurance Information Institute in dealing with the media following the attack. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (2002) 27, 288–294. doi:10.1111/1468-0440.00171

Suggested Citation

  • Gordon Stewart, 2002. "The Public Role of Insurers in Man-Made Catastrophes," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 27(2), pages 288-294, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gpprii:v:27:y:2002:i:2:p:288-294
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/gpp/journal/v27/n2/pdf/2500171a.pdf
    File Function: Link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/gpp/journal/v27/n2/full/2500171a.html
    File Function: Link to full text HTML
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:gpprii:v:27:y:2002:i:2:p:288-294. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.