Robert Hartwig
Robert Hartwig
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Politicians are loath to do anything that would hurt development in their local district. Politically, it would be impossible to propose limiting development.
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We don't want to promote 'serial rebuilding,' ... The industry does weigh in in post-disaster debates.
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Rising medical costs are the principle driver behind higher auto insurance prices in the U.S. and a significant share of that pressure is due to abuse and in some cases outright fraud.
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I'm skeptical that a lot of people will use them, and I'm even more skeptical that Congress is in a mood right now to pass anything that has a negative budget impact.
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The 2006 hurricane season is expected to be twice as active as usual.
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we'd be talking about $4.5 billion as a lot of money - and it is a lot of money.
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Typically, they want to know how many people are residents in your household. That creates a different liability situation, and you need to inform your insurance company about that.
cost
We dodged a bullet. But it's still probably going to cost insurers in the vicinity of $4.5 billion.
cost
We dodged a bullet, ... But it's still probably going to cost insurers in the vicinity of $4.5 billion.
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The definition of 'flood' is fairly ironclad. It's essentially water that comes from below,
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Unless there is some rationalization of the price of insurance relative to the risk assumed, there will be continued problems of availability.
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We are already at about $50 billion of insured losses from catastrophes in this country so far and that could be as high as $70 billion, depending on what Katrina does. Hurricane Wilma is a situation that is going to exacerbate what was already problematic for the insurance industry.
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Based on recent precedents, compensation payments to passengers' families are running at about $2.4 million per passenger, which suggests the total cost to insurers could be between $250 million to $350 million.
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What Katrina and Rita together are going to reveal is the shocking lack of flood coverage among homeowners, even those very likely to have their homes threatened by flood.