On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Americans will be called upon to cast a vote for the new POTUS along with a slew of Congressmen and Senators! For many Americans the choice, particularly for the new occupant of the White House, may be a difficult one. That said, this article is not meant to advocate for one […]
The law, politics, business and national security don’t always have a place in the same story but… In the case of the San Bernardino terrorists and the secrets that may be stored on their the Apple iPhones, they do! Here’s a synopsis: ‘Apple said on Wednesday that it would oppose and challenge a federal court order […]
There are likely others but, for readers to get an overview of what is going on around the world, this Top 10 is a great place to start! 1. Three American contractors have been kidnapped by “militias” in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the pan-Arab news channel Al Arabiya reported on Sunday, citing its own sources. The Americans […]
Could the migrant crisis and Paris terrorist attacks spell the beginning of the end of the European Union (EU)? End of the EU? A strong statement indeed! On what basis do I say that the flow of migrants and the recent terrorist attacks in Paris could be the catalyst to, if not the end of the EU, to […]
Back on December 19th we wrote about the impact that an expiration of TRIA on December 31 could have on the availability of certain types of insurance coverage! ‘If TRIA expires, commercial insurers will no longer be required to offer terrorism coverage beginning January 1. Without a federal backstop, insurers may seek to limit underwriting […]
Maybe a TRIA-like program for a firm like Sony that was threatened with terrorism would have allowed them to release ‘The Interview’! At his final press conference of the year Barack Obama unequivocally stated that Sony should not have backed away from the North Korean threat of a 9/11-style attack on any movie theater showing […]
TRIA, or the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act , was passed into law in 2002 to ‘put a temporary federal backstop program in place that would allow for a public and private sharing of insured losses resulting from future acts of terrorism against the United States’. Due to a failure by the US Senate to pass an […]
The unimaginable attack at an Oklahoma plant last week was a stark and unfortunate reminder that the need for vigilance and situational awareness has grown more acute! And while this topic is an uncomfortable one that some may prefer to ignore, it’s critical to at the very least follow some basic and fundamental rules for […]
Incredibly it is now 13 years to the day since the horrific terror attack on US soil took place centered in New York City, Washington, D.C. and a field in Shanksville, Pa.! And, like most any watershed event typically will, 9/11/2001 changed the way in which Americans needed to think about national security and the […]
