>>>>>Insurers in Britain and America were yesterday forming a consensus that last Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon constituted an act of terrorism – an eventuality which is much more widely insured for than an outbreak of war.

Chubb, one of America's largest insurers, and Swiss Re, the global reinsurer, became the first insurance companies to confirm that they did not view the disaster as an act of war. <<<<<<< http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=94621