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Author Dworsky, Michael, author.

Title The impact on workers' compensation insurance markets of allowing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to expire / Michael Dworsky, Lloyd Dixon.

Publication Info. [Santa Monica, California] : Rand Corporation, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (20 pages)
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Series Policy brief / Rand Corporation
Policy brief (Rand Corporation)
Note "RR-643-CCRMC"--Page 4 of cover
"RAND Center for Catastrophic Risk Management and Compensation"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Summary Congress enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002, in response to terrorism insurance becoming unavailable or, when offered, extremely costly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The law provides a government reinsurance backstop in the case of a terrorist attack by providing mechanisms for avoiding an immediate drawdown of capital for insured losses or possibly covering the most extreme losses. Extended first in 2005 and again in 2007, TRIA is set to expire at the end of 2014, and Congress is again reconsidering the appropriate government role in terrorism insurance markets. This policy brief examines how markets for workers' compensation (WC) insurance would be affected if TRIA were to expire. They explain that TRIA expiration would affect WC insurance markets differently from other insurance markets because WC statutes rigidly define the terms of coverage, such that in a post-TRIA world insurance companies would limit their terrorism risk exposure by declining coverage to employers facing high terrorism risk. Because WC coverage is mandatory for nearly all U.S. employers, employers that cannot purchase coverage would be forced to obtain coverage in markets of last resort. Migration of terrorism risk to these markets of last resort would increase the likelihood that WC losses from a catastrophic terror attack would largely be financed by businesses and taxpayers throughout the state in which the attack occurs, adding to the challenge of rebuilding in that state. TRIA, in contrast, spreads such risk across the country.
Subject United States. Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002.
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (United States)
Terrorism insurance -- Government policy -- United States.
Workers' compensation -- United States.
Assurance terrorisme -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis.
Travail -- Accidents -- Indemnisation -- États-Unis.
LAW -- Labor & Employment.
Workers' compensation
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Added Author Dixon, Lloyd S., author.
Rand Corporation, issuing body.
RAND Center for Catastrophic Risk Management and Compensation.
Other Form: Print version: Dworsky, Michael. Impact on workers' compensation insurance markets of allowing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to expire 0833086642 (OCoLC)881257388
ISBN 9780833086983 (electronic bk.)
0833086987 (electronic bk.)
0833086642
9780833086648
Report No. RAND/RR-643-CCRMC
Standard No. GBVCP 1008662461

 
    
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