Study on the Environmental Liability Insurance Legal System in China

The current situation of environment of China is so severe that serious environm ental pollution accidents have frequently happened. How to hunt for balance betw een protecting victims’ legal rights and making the enterprise more efficiently operated is a hard nut that embarrasses the environmental academia. As an effec tive measure to accelerate the socialization of the liability of compensation fo r environmental tort and solve the dilemma in the remedy for environmental tort, environmental liability insurance legal system appears in time. This article di scusses the construction of legal system, scope of cover, approved organization and operation model to present good suggestions for building environmental liabi lity insurance legal system in China.