WBN Terrorism, Political Violence and Active Assailant

Miller continues to be at the forefront of the London market’s evolving cover for terrorism, political violence and active assailant risks.

Our terrorism and political violence team can help you navigate the diversifying risk environment and advise on a range of solutions that protect property, finances and people, and help to mitigate risk.

Terrorism & political violence solutions

We secure a range of coverages on a standalone or combined package basis for organisations operating anywhere in the world. These include:

Acts of terrorism
Alternatives to TRIA and TRIA captive wrap
Nuclear, chemical, biological or radioactive weapons (NCBR)
Malicious damage
Sabotage
Strikes, riots & civil commotion
Insurrection, revolution or rebellion
Mutiny, coup d’état
War on land and civil war

For clients with assets, investments or exposures in the developing world, wider political violence and political risk coverage should also be considered in these territories.

Admitted global programme structures

Miller can place programmes which combine a blend of direct admitted coverages with reinsurances of fronted local placements. The ‘master’ policy also wraps around any local coverage purchased on a difference in conditions and difference in limits basis to ensure that there are no gaps.

Active assailant

For North American brokers, Miller can offer access to dedicated Active Assailant insurance.

Why you may not already be covered

Commercial general liability

Although active assailant incidents may not be expressly excluded from your general liability policy, there may be no affirmative cover either. Our policy responds as primary, does not require negligence to be proven, and protects your general liability program from a random, unpredictable incident. It also provides crisis management, PR, and counselling costs, which a general liability policy would not.

Workers’ compensation

This coverage may not respond unless the motivation of the attack is related to the workplace. It is also unlikely to respond or cover visitors, guests, or customers on the property. Typically, workers’ compensation coverage will also not reimburse extra expenses to recruit or train new employees replacing those unable to continue working after an attack. Salary continuation benefits are also state specific and generally speaking, do not fully indemnify the victims. Our policy provides a clearly defined personal accident benefit.

Property

Traditional cover requires physical damage to respond, whereas our policy includes non-physical damage and business interruption following a threat. Cover also extends to cover business interruption following an incident at a neighbouring property, restricted ingress / egress or loss of attraction.

TRIA

Only responds if an incident generates at least USD5m in property and casualty losses and is deemed a Certified Terrorist Attack by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. To date, there has been no event certified since 9/11.

How we can help transfer your risk

To best match a client’s needs and risk transfer appetite, all our policies are bespoke to include any of the following:

Legal liability
Personal accident benefit for those injured / killed
Threat response, including costs of a threat assessment and temporary additional security measures
Hostage response, including fees of negotiators/translators and salary of those involved with negotiations
Fees and expenses of response consultants
Related expenses following an incident
Property damage
Loss of earnings (temporary closure or denial of access, loss of attraction and ingress/egress)

All policies are designed to respond irrespective of motivation, without the need for physical damage, and address the changing nature of attacks whereby they can quickly develop into a hostage scenario.