Insurance and Climate Change: Do Governments Have a Duty to Protect Property Owners?

Meltz, Robert

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Climatic changes;    Environmental policy;    Environmental law and legislation;    Disaster insurance;    climate change;   

RP-ID  :  crs_ls_2014Oct16_insurance

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This legal sidebar discusses the climate change in context of federal and private insurers. One of the many insurance company concerns is whether the government can be held liable for not putting in place adequate infrastructure to protect against property damage from climate-change-related extreme weather.