{"id":11415,"date":"2014-09-02T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11415"},"modified":"2014-09-07T16:07:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T20:07:05","slug":"bizarre-insurance-policies-available-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/bizarre-insurance-policies-available-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre Insurance Policies Available In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/090214_1520_BizarreInsu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s insurance market has struggled to grow, despite low rates of market penetration. Insurers have resorted to offering quirky insurance policies to drum up interest write Clare Baldwin and Diana Chan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naughty child insurance helps parents to cover damages from children throwing tantrums. It costs 44 yuan a month and covers for up to 100,000 yuan of damages.<\/li>\n<li>Brides to be can get insurance against becoming pregnant before their honeymoon, getting divorced, and can even purchase a financial instrument that rewards them for remaining married.<\/li>\n<li>During the recent World Cup ardent fans could purchase insurance for over-drinking, being attacked by outraged fans, and their favourite team losing.<\/li>\n<li>Fans of the popular hotpot can get insurance against burning their mouth.<\/li>\n<li>Travelers can get insurance against smog ruining their vacations.<\/li>\n<li>And during the moon festival it was possible to purchase protection against clouds covering the moon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the different types of insurance, how much they cost, why the authorities have taken a dim view of the practice, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/us-china-insurance-idUSKBN0GV0WI20140831\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/08\/31\/us-china-insurance-idUSKBN0GV0WI20140831\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/09\/assorted-links-1224.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s insurance market has struggled to grow, despite low rates of market penetration. Insurers have resorted to offering quirky insurance policies to drum up interest write Clare Baldwin and Diana Chan: Naughty child insurance helps parents to cover damages from children throwing tantrums. It costs 44 yuan a month and covers for up to 100,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/090214_1520_BizarreInsu1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11439,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions\/11439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}