Strong Corporate Business Travelers' business is strongest in insuring risks for corporations, and it works with half of the Fortune 500 companies in the country.

For example, insurance companies could continue to use similar policy forms and band together to insure large risks like nuclear reactors.

A niche underwriter, Markel specializes in insuring complicated risks that larger, cookie-cutter companies avoid.

The unit insures sports, entertainment and leisure companies and activities against liability claims and other risks like a sudden injury to a movie star.

They may have insured certain risks they're nervous about, like liability, which can ruin a business.

At the time of the disaster it was said that there were only 4 companies able to insure risks of such size.

"As a result the commercial carriers insure only good risks, while Blue Cross's risk pool continues to deteriorate," he said.

The London market insures large commercial risks such as supermarkets, football players and other very specific risks.

In my country it has up to now been customary to insure biometric risks.

Insurers are supposed to insure risks but not to take them.