Airbnb offers $50,000 insurance policy after user's 'nightmare'

A little bit of a shame that the insurance industry is going to bank on this. The article doesn't state specifically, but some kind of complex underwriting has to be going on.

Interesting, tangentially related: 'Insurance' is the most expensive keyword in Google AdWords advertising: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/infogr...

Incredible business move on their part... they should come out of this entire crisis a winner. Might even be one of those no publicity is bad publicity examples.