In the wake of the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., insurers are shaking off their shock and swinging into action to respond to the tragedy.

"When our adjusters can get past the devastation and human cost of these events, they will approach it as they would any other tragedy."

Many insurance companies, including The Chubb Corporation, The Hartford, Kemper Insurance Co., and State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co., are responding to the terrorist attacks in the same way they would to a natural disaster: alerting and activating their catastrophe teams. Read It‘s ground zero for catastrophe teams handling claims from terrorist attacks.