# E&S Insurers Won't See Immediate Impact From WTC Attack 

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Surplus lines insurers are unlikely to feel the immediate financial impact of the World Trade Center disaster that standard insurers will, but they may face a surge of submissions as a result of the tragedy, according to an insurance analyst.

"The E&S exposure from the World Trade Center events, on the claims side, is going to be way low compared to the standard market," Ralph Cagnetta, man-aging senior financial analyst for A.M. Best Company in Oldwick, N.J., told National Underwriter during a recent interview. 

Most of the large-limit policies, work-ers' compensation and preferred busi-ness interruption business that will result in claims, was written on an admitted ba-sis, he said, predicting only "isolated ex-posure for some surplus lines compa-nies."