Other kinds of insurance, covering disabled workers and interrupted business, could pay as much as $18 billion, while workers' compensation would amount to about $3 billion.
Most have been emergency payments of several thousand dollars each to laborers out of work; bigger claims from companies citing interrupted business are now coming in, Mr. Feinberg said.
Increasingly, businesses insure not only against loss of property but the loss in profits that comes from an interrupted business.
— the good people of the town going about their business, the suddenly interrupted TV programs, the faces in the crowd looking up, the little girl pointing in the air, the mouths opening, the dog yapping, the traffic stopped, the shopping bag falling to the sidewalk, and there, in the sky, coming closer..
— the good people of the town going about their business, the suddenly interrupted TV programs, the faces in the crowd looking up, the little girl pointing in the air, the mouths opening, the dog yapping, the traffic stopped, the shopping bag falling to the sidewalk, and there, in the sky, coming closer.
Most recently, researchers at George Washington University found that women were "the more interrupted gender" -- getting interrupted even by women.
"Meanwhile, geopolitical instability is exposing businesses to cancelled projects, revoked licences, interrupted production, damaged assets and restricted movement of funds across borders.
One of the most common causes of interrupted Internet connections is telephone line noise.
C9 Business Digest C1 World Business W1 E-BUSINESS H1-12 EDITORIAL A18-19 Editorials: The interrupted primary; the specter of biological terror; helping the youngest victims.
Businesses wouldn't put up with an interrupted supply or higher bills for very long; some would undoubtedly move overseas to places with less punitive environmental laws.
