9/11 and Insurance: The Eight Year Anniversary - Insurers Paid Out Nearly $40 Billion

I.I.I. Has Facts and Statistics Available Regarding Terrorist Attacks and Insured Property Losses
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NEW YORK, September 10, 2009 — The Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) has experts available to discuss the insurance implications of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the challenges insurers and their policyholders have faced eight years later.

The 9/11 attack produced insured losses of $39.5 billion (adjusted to 2008 dollars), including property, business interruption, aviation, workers compensation, life and liability insurance claim costs as shown in the graph below:


A total of 2,976 people perished in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, excluding the 19 hijackers. It was the worst terrorist attack on record in terms of fatalities and insured property losses, which totaled about $23 billion (in 2008 dollars).

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