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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>🛡️ '''Pandemic insurance''' is a category of [[Definition:Insurance coverage | coverage]] designed to protect businesses, governments, or individuals against financial losses caused by widespread infectious disease outbreaks. Traditional [[Definition:Property and casualty insurance (P&C) | property and casualty]] policies generally exclude [[Definition:Pandemic | pandemic]]-related losses — particularly [[Definition:Business interruption insurance | business interruption]] claims without direct physical damage — which leaves a protection gap that pandemic-specific products aim to fill. These products may take the form of standalone [[Definition:Indemnity | indemnity]] policies, [[Definition:Parametric insurance | parametric]] instruments, or hybrid structures backed by public-private partnerships.<br />
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⚙️ Several design approaches have emerged. [[Definition:Parametric trigger | Parametric triggers]] — such as the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic or infection rates crossing defined thresholds — allow for rapid payouts without the lengthy [[Definition:Claims adjustment | claims adjustment]] process that plagued COVID-19 [[Definition:Business interruption insurance | business interruption]] disputes. Government-backed pools modeled on [[Definition:Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) | TRIA]] have been proposed in the United States and Europe, where the private market absorbs initial losses up to a retention point and the public sector backstops [[Definition:Catastrophe | catastrophic]] layers. [[Definition:Insurance-linked securities (ILS) | Insurance-linked securities]], including [[Definition:Catastrophe bond | catastrophe bonds]] with pandemic triggers like the World Bank's now-expired Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, represent another avenue for transferring pandemic risk to [[Definition:Capital markets | capital markets]] investors.<br />
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🌐 The commercial appetite for pandemic coverage surged after COVID-19 exposed trillions of dollars in uninsured economic losses worldwide. Yet the core challenge remains: pandemic risk is highly correlated and difficult to diversify, which pushes it beyond the comfortable bounds of traditional [[Definition:Underwriting | underwriting]]. Without a government backstop or innovative [[Definition:Risk transfer | risk-transfer]] mechanisms, private [[Definition:Insurance carrier | carriers]] struggle to offer meaningful limits at affordable [[Definition:Premium | premiums]]. The ongoing development of pandemic insurance is therefore as much a policy and regulatory question as an [[Definition:Actuarial science | actuarial]] one, and its evolution will shape the industry's ability to remain relevant in an era of systemic biological risk.<br />
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'''Related concepts'''<br />
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* [[Definition:Pandemic]]<br />
* [[Definition:Business interruption insurance]]<br />
* [[Definition:Parametric insurance]]<br />
* [[Definition:Catastrophe bond]]<br />
* [[Definition:Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA)]]<br />
* [[Definition:Public-private partnership]]<br />
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