Leader’s Edge 5/10/2020- Is PRIA the Answer?

Robert P. Hartwig, PhD, CPCU · May 10, 2020 ·

Dr. Robert Hartwig was contacted by Russ Banham for a Leader’s Edge article about the proposed Pandemic Risk Insurance Act (PRIA) and how it’s being compared to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA). Robert Hartwig, who was instrumental in drafting TRIA, says that PRIA is “a solution in search of a problem.” He also says that the comparison between PRIA and TRIA is “a false analogy.” Read the entire article here on Russ Banham’s website.

About Robert P. Hartwig, PhD, CPCU

Director, Risk and Uncertainty Management Center
Clinical Associate Professor
Robert Hartwig (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1993) is clinical associate professor of finance and director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center. His research focuses on insurance markets and structures, risk management, pandemic risk, risk-bearing capital market instruments, the financing of technology risks and venture capital in insurance markets. He makes frequent presentations to insurance industry management, boards of directors, regulators and legislators. Prior to joining the Darla Moore School of Business, he was president and economist for the Insurance Information Institute in New York and in prior positions worked for Swiss Re, the National Council on Compensation Insurance and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University. His professional experience includes expert witness testimony and testimony before numerous congressional and state legislative committees. He holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) credential and speaks frequently in the media on all issues related to insurance markets.