Most Insurers Get Cold Feet On Ski Risks Despite legal protections and safety improvements, market remains limited
Despite a record year for headline-grabbing deaths in avalanches, several professionals who pay attention to ski area underwriting say those tragedies will not change the insurance market very much.
The deaths, they say, probably will not involve any sustainable claimand insurers in the business are skilled at anticipating such risk. Not that there are a lot of carriers or that their rates are likely to decrease.
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