Throwback Thursday: Satellite insurance attempts take-off
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to October 1991 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when our award-winning publication's editor Alyson Rudd examined space insurance.
10 October 1991: A space odysseyInsurers and space operators were disagreeing about satellite insurance rates, which back in 1991 averaged out between 15% and 20%.
Hans Schimrock, head of the European
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