# Rep. Oxley Letter On War Exclusion Still Being Revised 

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In a draft of a letter to insurance regulators obtained by National Underwriter, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, warned insurance companies not to deny coverage relating to terrorist attacks on the United States last week based on the acts-of-war exclusion.

A representative for Rep. Oxley said that the letter obtained by the National Underwriter is a draft and has not yet been signed. The representative said the letter is still undergoing revisions and some of the quoted passages may be changed in the final version.

In the draft of the letter to Kathleen Sebelius, president of the Kansas City, Mo.-based National Association of Insurance Companies, Rep. Oxley said that while he believes it is unlikely that insurance companies will try to exercise the exclusion