A central theme of our practice in the climate change area is that there are certain to be lots of opportunities created. The renewable energy sphere is one, carbon trading is another. Niche insurance coverage is a third. There will be exotic products addressing the viability and deliverability of carbon and renewable energy credits. And extensions of typical products to cover things like green buildings. But even something as prosaic as basic property insurance will see innovation and opportunity precipitated by climate change risks. We have written before of the potentially dire situatio...

"If pigs could fly" is used to belittle wishful thinking. If only words could solve a different kind of airborne porcine problem, swine flu, which international airline travel has catapulted to the nation's, and the world's, attention. Two questions relevant to this blog suggest themselves: 1) is this new H1N1 virus a result of climate change, and 2) is there insurance for this sort of thing? We'll take the easiest question first, is there insurance? It depends. With respect to liability policies, there is nothing to preclude a claim, for example, that inadequate airplane ventilation le...