Attack Puts Insurance Issues On Back-Burner.(Terrorist attacks impact on insurance industry)(Brief Article)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, September, 2001 by Brostoff, Steven

No words available to this writer can adequately describe the scale of events that struck the United States on Sept. 11. The seemingly parochial issues affecting the insurance industry now pending on Capitol Hill pale in comparison to the security issues that now confront Congress. Industry representatives declined to speculate on when Congress would return to some of the industry-related issues that remain unresolved, such as a patients' bill of rights and insurance regulation.

However, they agree, these issues are now on the back burner. "The focus of Congress, the Administration and the American people will be with issues directly related to the tragedy," according to David Farmer, senior vice president of federal affairs with the Alliance of American...

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