Focus on Terrorism, Volume 2Focus On Terrorism Volume 2 |
Contents
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Terrorism Insurance The 2002 Marketplace | 29 |
War Bonds Options for Financing Terrorism Response Activities | 35 |
Terrorism Health Insurance for Displaced Workers | 59 |
Terrorism Insurance in the Post September 11 Marketplace | 65 |
Insurance Exclusion Clauses Excluding War Risks and Terror Risks from Insurance Contracts | 71 |
Terrorism Risk Insurance A Summary of Legislative Proposals | 85 |
Terrorism Emergency Supplemental | 97 |
Biological Weapons | 101 |
The Biological Weapon A Poor Nations Weapon of Mass Destruction | 123 |
TwentyFirst Century Germ Warfare | 137 |
The September 11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 | 39 |
Impact of Terrorist Attacks on the US Insurance Industry | 47 |
Insurance Industry Response to Terrorist Attacks | 53 |
Biological Weapons for Waging Economic Warfare | 153 |
Index | 165 |
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Page 72 - No Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or supersede any law enacted by any State for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance...
Page 6 - Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small-business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
Page 6 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 114 - Convention undertakes never in any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain: ( 1 ) Microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin or method of production...
Page 24 - I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy. Terrorists attacked a symbol of American prosperity. They did not touch its source. America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.
Page 72 - Congress with reference to the regulation of the business of insurance. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby declares that the continued regulation and taxation by the several States of the business of insurance is in the public interest, and that silence on the part of the Congress shall not be construed to impose any barrier to the regulation or taxation of such business by the several States.
Page 81 - The Court consistently has held that the application of an income tax statute to the entire calendar year in which enactment took place does not per se violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Page 114 - Microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin or method of production, of types and in quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes; (2) Weapons, equipment or means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict.
Page 44 - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA Patriot Act) was enacted on October 26, 2001.
Page 74 - Contract terms are ambiguous if they are capable of more than one meaning when viewed objectively by a reasonably intelligent person who has examined the context of the entire integrated agreement and who is cognizant of the customs, practices, usages and terminology as generally understood in the particular trade or business.