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The Treasury Department has extended a key provision of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act that requires commercial property and casualty insurers to offer terrorism insurance policies for another year.
Treasury officials had until Sept. 1 to extend the "make available" provision of TRIA through 2005.
However, Treasury officials said they acted well in advance of the deadline "to avoid any potential disruption" in the insurance market.
They were also under pressure from real estate interests, lenders and congressional leaders to act quickly.
"The terrorism risk insurance program has been an important confidence builder as this country recovered from the attacks of Sept. 11 and the recession," ...