Demand for ‘active shooter insurance’ on the rise as US reopens
Al Jazeera
As the COVID-19 pandemic eases and the United States opens up again, institutions are taking steps to prepare for an aspect of the old normal: mass shootings.
As normality filters back into American lives after a year of lockdowns, United States hospitals and other institutions are busy making provisions for one aspect of that old normal they would rather consign to the past: mass shootings. Last year was the least deadly for US mass shootings in a decade, a Reuters news agency tally shows. But spring has brought a resurgence in gun violence and insurers are reporting a jump in demand for protection against such events at a time when the pent-up traumas and frustrations of living through a pandemic are also re-entering the public domain.
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