SAN FRANCISCO–Insurers and environmentalists attending a meeting of insurance regulators here clashed yesterday over the issue of how insurers should respond to challenges posed by global warming.
At the closing session of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners summer meeting, industry representatives resisted entreaties that a series of interrogatories related to global warming should be part of the annual statement filed by insurers.
Robert Detlefsen, public policy director for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, told the NAIC's Climate Change and Global Warming Task Force that insurers are focusing on the issues caused by changing weather patterns that have been observed cyclically for decades.
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