NU Online News Service, April 30, 1:52 p.m. EDT

The property-casualty insurance sector most likely to see any swine flu claims would be the workers' compensation line, an insurance expert who has studied influenza pandemics said today.

But Steven Weisbart, senior vice president and chief economist at the Insurance Information Institute, also said that bringing such comp claims would probably be difficult.

In general, he said the U.S. property-casualty, life insurance, and reinsurance industries have the capacity to weather any swine flu claims surge, even in the remote likelihood of an outbreak comparable to the deadly 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic.

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