Trends in Terrorism: Threats to the United States and the Future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act

Trends in Terrorism: Threats to the United States and the Future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act

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The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) requires insurers to offer commercial insurance that will pay on claims that occur from a terrorist attack, and for losses on the scale of 9/11, TRIA provides a "backstop" in the form of free reinsurance. The authors describe the evolving terrorist threat with the goal of comparing the underlying risk of attack to the architecture of financial protection that has been facilitated by TRIA.