Insurance can sometimes be a wild and wooly business where the risks range from longhorn cattle on the loose to exploding baseballs, National Underwriter's probe of the far side of insurance underwriting has found.

This year's casual survey of unusual risk among of readers and other insurance professionals turned up stories that ranged from coverage of taste buds to model aircraft.

Let us begin with the famous exploding baseball- a risk that Prime Insurance in Chicago took on a few years back.

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