Sunday, June 14, 2009

Increased Interest in Life Insurance Due to Swine Flu

Apparently life insurance has increased in demand in the US due to the swine flu.

Dr. Steven Weisbart, the author of a 2006 study based on recent epidemics in the US, studies plagues, pandemics and terrorism for the Insurance Information Institute. He has said that the life insurance industry could endure a swine flu surge, even in the remote likelihood of an outbreak comparable to the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic that killed two million people.