Month: July 2015
29 July, 2015
14 July 2014, Commercial property coverage premiums come down – including terrorism coverage

Nancy Crotti recently wrote an illuminating article on the decrease of commercial property coverage premiums for Commercial Property Executive. This included terrorism coverage. Titled, Buyer's Market - For Now, Ms.…

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29 July, 2015
29 July 2015, Main hospitality insurance points from Marsh’s venerable 2015 Terrorism Risk Insurance Report

Marsh recently published its 2015 Terrorism Risk Insurance Report, one of the top yearly terrorism insurance reports. Its statistical highlights regarding the Hospitality and Gaming sector are as follows: Terrorism Insurance…

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22 July, 2015
23 September 1990, the Nikko Manila Garden and Mandarin Oriental Hotels, Manila, The Philippines

On 23 September 1990, UPI reports that bombs exploded in two hotels in Manila’s central business district, known as Makati: the Nikko Manila Garden Hotel, and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.…

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13 July, 2015
10 July 2015, Thailand

The Phuket News and other outlets report that on 10 July, a bomb exploded at the Top Asia Hotel in Sungai Golok district, Narathiwat province, on Soi Pracha Vivat 2.…

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08 July, 2015
7 July 2015, Myanmar – bombers sentenced

On 3 July, a Myanmar district court sentenced Saw Myint Lwin to life in prison with hard labor for helping a terror cell bomb the Traders Hotel in Yangon in…

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04 July, 2015
3 July 2015, Original content: Hotel terrorism underwriting in East Africa – the same for…

...with expert commentary by ATI’s Sherry Kennedy and Souvik Banerjea  by Jeff Moore, PhD, with Tim Hill, 3 July 2015 (originally written in November 2014, slightly updated for June/July 2015) With the devastating 26…

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03 July, 2015
2 July 2015, Update on Tunisia Sousse hotel massacre

Since first reporting on the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba massacre on 27 June in Sousse, Tunisia, Muir Analytics has collected additional information on the sequence of the attack. Here is the updated version: One month…

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01 July, 2015
30 June 2015, Tunisia

On 27 June, the Tunisian government announced increased national security measures in the wake of the 26 June Sousse hotel massacre that killed as many as 30. This was the…

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