Apparently life insurance has increased in demand in the US due to the swine flu.
Dr. Steven Weisbart, the author of a 2006 study based on recent epidemics in the US, studies plagues, pandemics and terrorism for the Insurance Information Institute. He has said that the life insurance industry could endure a swine flu surge, even in the remote likelihood of an outbreak comparable to the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic that killed two million people.
