>I think the ideal way to handle it would be to find some way to insure for it That is absolutely the best way to handle it and Airbnb should require appropria

>I think the ideal way to handle it would be to find some way to insure for it That is absolutely the best way to handle it and Airbnb should require appropriate documentation that hosts are insured appropriately and aren't violating the terms of their leases. But Airbnb wont do that because then they would have fewer hosts and thus less revenue. The answer that the original article tried (and failed) to say is that Airbnb and others should be responsible for ensuring that their operators are within the law but they don't and claim ignorance.