Weather insurance, being the crapshoot it is, is an idea that sounds good but hasn't done so well in practice. Lin Chien-chih, chairman of National Cheng Chi University's Department of Risk Management and Insurance, says that Taiwan is lagging behind the booming weather derivatives and weather insurance markets in America, Europe, and Japan, and many Taiwanese companies still haven't come around to the concept of risk avoidance.
跟天氣對賭的天氣保險叫好不叫座，政治大學風險管理與保險學系主任林建智認為，相較於美國、歐洲、日本等國家的天氣險及氣候衍生性商品市場蓬勃發展，台灣的天氣保險起步較晚，企業尚缺乏避險觀念。