Munich RE
Epidemic Risk Insurance – Saving lives, protecting economies
While the insurance industry has tended to keep away from epidemic risks in the past, it is now looking at ways to develop valuable solutions for this business field – at the same time strengthening the resilience of companies and societies alike.
In global public health, 2016 was a year defined by the end of two epidemic emergencies: Ebola and Zika. While the risk posed by such viruses has not gone away, these epidemic emergencies have at least awakened the world to the threat posed by weak health systems and poor primary healthcare and how sensitive parts of the economy react to such outbreaks.