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The article discusses the changes affecting the U.S. insurance industry during World War II. Commercial insurance underwriters are interested in separating themselves from the social insurance sector. The U.S. War Risk Division now handles the marine insurance business in the U.S. In the field of life insurance, private insurers are working in conjunction with the U.S. government in wartime. Analysts say the outlook for the postwar insurance industry is promising. Experts say housing insurance policies will be on the rise due to new construction and that life insurance policies will be on the rise in conjunction with increases in national earnings.

The article discusses the economic impact of the first World War and recovery on the insurance industry in Europe. The article examines the German life insurance market in terms of war risk and life insurance, the European decline in purchasing power, the rise in the cost of commodities and consumer prices, and efforts to create a stable gauge of value in terms of property insurance. The article discusses insurance company costs relative to salaries and administration. The strengths and weakness of the system in light of the war are explored. The article compares what happened in Germany against British insurance companies that faced the same challenges. The author concludes that a successful insurance business must be founded on sound economic principles.

The article reports that the U.S. government has organized an insurance program designed for Americans involved in World War I. It mentions that the program was established through a U.S. Congressional Act established on October 6, 1917 and is different from traditional insurance companies in that it was not formed as a money-making venture. Statistics on the amount of insurance taken since the start of 1918 until August of the same year and the number of applications are provided.

The article discusses how life insurance provided a stabilizing influence in the transitions for Americans during the quarter-century of armistice between the two World Wars of 1917 and 1942. It says that life insurance provided the security base for Americans which remained on a firmer and higher plane than that of any other people in the world. It traces the significant development of life insurance back to the innovation of Government War Risk Life Insurance in World War I.

The article reports on the expected profit of Rhode Island Insurance Co. when portions of war risk policies written by the company in the West Coast expires in mid-December 1942. It states that Rhode Island Insurance is the only insurance company who took the risk of offering insurance policies to the citizens in the region against war damage. The company is expected to earn more than 500 million U.S. dollars on December 15, 1942. The article also reports on the New York Insurance Department's plan to investigate Rhode Island's war risk status.

The article reports on the U.S. government's proposed war-risk insurance plan and its impact on taxpayers. It was introduced in the U.S. Senate in July 1951 and it says that the insurance industry can not decide whether to support or oppose it. According to the Bureau of the Budget, these bills were inadequate because of the destructive possibilities of the atomic bomb. The author believes that under the proposed bill, war damage to property would be a general burden to be borne by all taxpayers.

The article focuses on the aviation war risk insurance and marine war risk programs of the U.S. government scheduled to be launched in 1953. An order requiring the issuance of binders by the Maritime Administration and its implication for premium rates are mentioned. The Air Transport Association is calling for the immediate activation of the aviation program due to a 48-hour cancellation clause in the aviation war risk insurance policy. The association argues that commercial air carriers are exposed to war hazards in many parts of the world.

The article reports on the plan of ship insurers to cancel war risk cover across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus starting on January 1, 2023 following the exit of reinsurers from the region. It informs about the cancelled war risk coverage offered by protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs American, North, UK and West. Among the providers of reinsurance and retrocession with excluded war-related claims are Hannover Re HNRGn.DE, Munich Re MUVGn.DE and Swiss Re SRENH.S.

The article discusses that commercial aviation are causing aviation claims and war risk insurance premiums. It mentioned the impact of war risk insurance claims on legal activities and derivative legal actions. Topics discussed includes definition of war risk insurance and decisions of the district court and Second Circuit in Pan American.

The article discusses the establishment of the Special Group on War Risk Insurance by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The recommendations of the organization include setting up an international captive insurance organization that provides aviation war risk coverage. It notes that the Special Group on the Modernization of the Rome Convention is also established by ICAO to modernize the 1952 Rome Convention.

Analyzes the emergent trends in aviation war risk insurance in Europe in 2005. Overview of the agreement between the members of the International Air Transport Association; Implications of the agreement for the military regulations implemented by the European Community; Impact of terrorist acts on the status of world insurance market reserves.

The article reports that War Shipping Administration grants the cut for war-risk insurance rates based on federal policy rather than diminishing risks that benefits international fleets and shipments in the U.S.

The article discusses the economic strategy of Donald Gordon, czar of Canadian price ceiling. His objective to strip Canada to the bare essentials of civilian existence is presented in order to divert energy and capacity into war production. His policy of standardization is described along with his organized distribution to eliminate waste and pare costs. A study on interurban market for the baking trade is discussed together with the framework of a man-power plan and a war risk insurance measure.

The article reports on the actions taken to address the problems caused by the establishment of cargo war-risk rates by the American Cargo War Risk Re-insurance Exchange and sale of war risk coverage on the hulls by an American Marine Insurance Syndicate in 1942.

The article discusses the problem of the members of the Rate and Underwriting Committee of the American Cargo War Risk Reinsurance Exchange, of fixing the charges to ensure cargoes sailing the seven sea against hazard of war. It states that they cannot fix the rates too high, as the U.S. federal government would step in, and neither too low, as it would result in a loss. It mentions that the government has appropriated 40,000,000 dollars for war-risk, however, there intervention is not required.

The author comments on various issues that involved the U.S. government. He believes that the New Deal measures imposed by then U.S. President Harry Truman could cause further inflation of the U.S. dollar, as the measures were supported by the U.S. House of Representatives. The author comments that the National Service Life Insurance policy for U.S. military veterans since World War II would reach up to 450 million dollars.

The article explores the business legislation at the U.S. Congress from 1917 to December 15, 1937. Topics covered include tax bill, balanced budget, and food conservation. Also mentioned are the foreign-loan bill with mandatory repayments within 30 years, votes for women, and the War Risk Insurance Act.

The article focuses on the issue of demobilization in the U.S. as of January 25, 1919. The conversion of the War Risk Insurance of the military branch of the Government into insurance for civilian employees of the Government is mentioned. Farming appeals to soldiers returning from the war and the future of the military policy of the U.S. are also discussed.

The article focuses on the high special dividend to be received by the veteran under the National Service life insurance in 1949, which was caused by the old American Experience mortality table.

The article focuses on the effort of the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) in helping federal agencies and commercial shipowners ease the financial difficulties and direct through the potential high costs of war and marine risks insurance. It details how the war risk insurance affects commercial war risk rates and how commercial underwriters price their premiums. It also outlines how the use of MARAD's Title XII marine war risk insurance program would go into effect.

Comments on a research which assessed the emergent trends in aviation war risk insurance in Europe in 2005. Implications of an air transport regulation by the European Union for the status of commercial aeronautics in the region; Threats posed by terrorism to the performance of air carriers in Europe; Criticisms against the application of the Montreal Convention liability principles in the research.

This article outlines the customer service aspects of USAA Insurance. USAA serves military personnel and their families. The article discusses the employee training practices that mirror military life in order to give USAA employees an understanding of their clientele.

Insuring International Terrorist Risks Acts of terrorism continue to make international headlines. The resulting losses have quickly attracted the attention of underwriters who did not consider terrorism as a loss [...]

Presents information on the importance of meeting-insurance. Purpose of an event cancellation policy; Issue of revenue protection; Underwriters for organization cancellation and terrorism insurance. INSETS: Meeting-Insurance Terminology;QUICK TIPS.

Focuses on the issues on war risk insurance faced by airlines around the world in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Other problems that affect the airline industry; Percentage increase in the total premiums being paid by airlines; Airline insurance cooperation formed by U.S.-based airlines. INSET: No relief for Sars.

The article reports on the victory of the National War Labor Board (NWLB) after fishing boat owners heeded its order to give each fisherman a 5,000 U.S. dollar war-risk insurance policy in Massachusetts in February 1942, which ended the strike that had been called by the Boston Fishermen's Union of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

The article looks at the benefits that Middle East Airlines (MEA) will get after its 13 planes were burned when the International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon was attacked by the Israeli commandos. The airline covered its fleet with complete war-risk insurance and is expected to collect 17.9 million dollars from Lloyd's of London and other insurers after the incident. It will receive 1,500,000 dollars for each of two destroyed Caravelles that were actually worth about 900,000.

The article offers information related to the insurance policy of the hijacked Pan American 747 plane by Palestinian terrorists in September 1970. It mentions that no fewer than five top law firms argued the insurance case of the hijacked plane in a New York Federal court because of the variety of insurers involved. The main question was whether the hijacking represented war or warlike operations which was excluded from general or all-risk insurance. According to Judge Marvin Frankel, the term warlike operations does not encompass the infliction of intentional violence by nongovernmental political groups upon civilians far from the scene of regular fighting, therefore, whatever is not clearly excluded id covered by the insurance.

The article reports that the war risk insurance coverage against British seizure of cargos, will be available for Latin Americans, and England has returned 9 of the 21 Germans, who were taken off a Japanese liner, by a British warship.

The article reports on the implication of the reduction of war-risk insurance rates in Sweden, the Netherlands and Great Britain for shipping companies.

The article reports that insurance companies in London, England have decided in October 1937 not to include war risk protection in any new policies, seeing the havoc wrought in Spain and China.