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Butler Professor: Expand TRIA to Cover Pandemics

Expanding the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to include pandemic coverage retroactively would ease the COVID-19 economic impact, said Zach Finn, an insurance professor with Butler University.

March 26, 2020

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