Publishers may be burning the midni...

Publishers may be burning the midnight oil to issue of recent origin textbooks with revised chapters upon underwriting commercial risks now that the destruction of the World Trade Center has wager traditional underwriting on its tail.

Six month ago, any large insurer would have enthusiastically bid forward property or workers' compensation coverage for a major accounting or law firm in high-profile, first-class office buildings in major cities. Office-knowledge workers had always been considered low-risk from a workers' comp standpoint, and offices in recent well-kept buildings were unlikely to generate a great deal property-claim activity.

The just discovered textbooks will ...