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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on August 30, 1993. The length of the article is 16419 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: It is fallacious to group the Midwestern state floods with Hurricane Andrew in the planning federal disaster relief and catastrophe insurance reform legislation. Although the monetary damage and the numbers of people left homeless by the two disasters may be analogous, a great number of dissimilar aspects, especially in reference to insurance, make floods and hurricanes incomparable. Property and casualty insurers carry the burden of hurricane damage claims, whereas there will be no repayment for much of the property damage resulting from the flood.

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Title: Midwest flood is no Hurricane Andrew, and vice versa. (Another Perspective) (Column)
Author: Marc H. Rosenberg
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 30, 1993
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n35Page: p25(2)

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This digital document is an article from New Statesman (1996), published by New Statesman, Ltd. on October 28, 2002. The length of the article is 1266 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ball watching: Bryan Appleyard on the wretched life of a man capable of "beautiful moments". (Books).(The Hurricane:the Turbulent Life and Times of Alex Higgins)(Book Review)
Author: Bryan Appleyard
Publication: New Statesman (1996) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 28, 2002
Publisher: New Statesman, Ltd.
Volume: 131Issue: 4611Page: 53(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from Hawaii Business, published by Hawaii Business Publishing Co. on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 48320 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The grand plan. (economic recovery from Hurricane Iniki) (The Resurrection of Kauai) (Cover Story)
Author: Diane Chang
Publication: Hawaii Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: Hawaii Business Publishing Co.
Volume: v38Issue: n7Page: p61(7)

Article Type: Cover Story

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on January 8, 1990. The length of the article is 15203 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: TV eyes video news releases.
Author: Christopher Dauer
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 8, 1990
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n2Page: p27(2)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on February 5, 1990. The length of the article is 2751 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Insurers assess U.K. storm damage.
Author: John Jennings
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 5, 1990
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n6Page: p1(2)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on October 22, 1990. The length of the article is 8675 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Two agent associations recall Hugo. (Independent Agents of South Carolina and North Carolina, Hurricane Hugo)
Author: Robert G. Knowles
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 22, 1990
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n43Page: p4(2)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on June 4, 1990. The length of the article is 4991 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Industry effort praised in wake of Hugo. (insurance industry)
Author: Angela K. Calise
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 4, 1990
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n23Page: p45(1)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on August 31, 1992. The length of the article is 1779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Property and casualty insurance companies have dispatched thousands of employees to provide claims assessment and settlement assistance to South Florida and western Louisiana policyholders for losses resulting from Hurricane Andrew. Government authorities have estimated that damages from the worst storm in history will exceed $20 billion. Although insured loss estimates have not yet been calculated, but on-sight insurance adjusters anticipate loss claims from four Florida counties alone to equal the record $4.2 billion cost for South Carolina's Hurricane Hugo in Sep 1989.

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Title: Insurers scramble to assess Andrew damages. (Hurricane Andrew)
Author: Robert G. Knowles
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 31, 1992
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n35Page: p1(2)

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This digital document is an article from Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, published by Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc. on June 1, 1990. The length of the article is 16084 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Jamaica assures U.S. of Blue Mt. supply. (Blue Mountain coffee after hurricane)
Publication: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 1990
Publisher: Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc.
Volume: v162Issue: n6Page: p52(2)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 14, 1992. The length of the article is 1038 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Property and casualty insurance industry home offices have sent 4,000 claims adjusters to Florida and Louisiana to estimate damage and facilitate claims resulting from Hurricane Andrew. The American Insurance Services Group Inc Property Claims Services Div estimates insured losses at $500 million for Louisiana and $7.3 billion for Florida. Insurers fear that damage claims will be the greatest they have experienced and Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Brown has been reviewing carriers' financial status to assure that claims can be paid.

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Title: Adjuster army eyes Andrew claims. (Hurricane Andrew)
Author: Robert G. Knowles
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 14, 1992
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n37Page: p1(2)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 21, 1992. The length of the article is 1186 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Property and casualty insurance company catastrophe adjusters have encountered Hurricane Andrew-caused claims settlement problems not experienced in other previous disasters. The large amount of total damage to urban area automobiles, buildings and homes has made it difficult for adjusters to locate and communicate with the 700,000 potential claimants, many of whom have relocated. The hurricane's massive obliteration has made it difficult to identify property even after claimant contact has been made. Home office claims processing has also been overloaded by the disaster.

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Title: Cat adjusters tackle losses from Andrew. (catastrophe, Hurricane Andrew)
Author: Robert G. Knowles
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 21, 1992
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n38Page: p1(2)

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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on September 7, 1992. The length of the article is 661 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: No room at the inn; Arkansas hotels, restaurants enjoy booming business in wake of Hurricane. (Industry Overview)
Author: Tim Taylor
Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 7, 1992
Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.
Volume: v9Issue: n36Page: p24(1)

Article Type: Industry Overview

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This digital document is an article from Hawaii Business, published by Hawaii Business Publishing Co. on May 1, 1993. The length of the article is 3044 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A tailwind for tourism. (Hurricane Iniki boosts hotel occupancy rates in Hawaii) (Industry Overview)
Author: Lybia Ma
Publication: Hawaii Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1993
Publisher: Hawaii Business Publishing Co.
Volume: v38Issue: n11Page: p19(5)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 21, 1992. The length of the article is 2624 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The estimated $7.8 billion in damage claims from Hurricane Andrew is expected to impact the 3rd qtr 1992 earnings of the property and casualty insurance industry (P&C) but remediable factors can offset some losses and return the industry to a progressively profitable cycle. Losses from Hurricane Andrew will provide P&C companies with federal tax relief. Insurers estimate that 30% of the damage claims will be paid by foreign reinsurance companies. In the 1st half 1992, the P&C industry reported $7.7 billion in net profits. Sales and income also showed gains over 2nd qtr 1991.

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Title: Andrew to break P&C profit pattern. (Hurricane Andrew, property and casualty insurance industry)
Author: David C. Jones
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 21, 1992
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n38Page: p91(2)

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This digital document is an article from Florida Trend, published by Trend Magazines, Inc. on August 1, 1993. The length of the article is 49092 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Is your disaster plan in place? (After Andrew)
Author: Valerie Hersch
Publication: Florida Trend (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1993
Publisher: Trend Magazines, Inc.
Volume: v36Issue: n4Page: p67(3)

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 21835 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Vulnerability of agricultural societies to natural hazards sometimes increases as those groups are incorporated into the global economy. Data and observations taken after a 1990 hurricane suggest that market participation did not increase vulnerability of two rural communities in Western Samoa. Although a weakening of the moral economy probably accentuated the vulnerability of poor households, the relationship between market participation and a breakdown in precapitalist social relationships was not simple. Positive self-help response of villages to the hurricane can be attributed to strength of their social institutions.

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Title: Hurricane hazard in Western Samoa.
Author: Deborah D. Paulson
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v83Issue: n1Page: p43(11)

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Hurricane Floyd was one of the most costly storms in U.S. history, and nowhere did its impact resonate more strongly than in eastern North Carolina. The devastating floods that followed Hurricane Floyd in September 1999 affected half the counties in the state. Fifty-two people lost their lives and tens of thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed. The floods severely impacted the state's agriculture and livestock industries, eliminated 30,000 jobs, and caused countless hours of human misery for people of all ages, ethnic groups, and social classes.

The destruction and suffering resulting from a disaster often stimulates a call for change. But what happens when the visual reminders are gone? Do communities continue to work toward preventing similar impacts from occurring after future disasters? Drawing on the experience and insights of experts and the people who experienced the disaster firsthand, this ambitious volume describes the challenges that communities in eastern North Carolina faced after Hurricane Floyd. Together the contributors recommend a revision to how eastern North Carolina and other flood-prone regions plan and prepare for natural disasters. ... Read more

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Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes and Related Flooding
When my colleagues and I planned the conference upon which this book was based, we wanted to make sure we would come to understand why Hurricane Floyd wreaked such devastation upon Eastern North Carolina in September of 1999 so we could better inform the public as to the causes and remedies. What we found was that many of the disastrous consequences could have been avoided. A series of freakish natural events, combined with thousands of political and individual property development decisions over a 50 year period, converted Eastern NC into a giant bathtub with many of its key drains clogged. Some have described the flooding that occured as "Biblical" in nature. And it can happen again unless community leaders show the courage to make the necessary modest and reasonable changes to their respective communities. This is a book from which scientists, politicians, agency personnel and the general public all can benefit. It is based on research in the physical, environmental, and social sciences as well as "on the ground" experiences. All net proceeds go to projects for improving our understanding of the impacts of hurricanes. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 23, 1991. The length of the article is 5804 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Insurers pick up the pieces after Hurricane Bob.
Author: Neil McGhee
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 23, 1991
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n38Page: p3(2)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on October 5, 1992. The length of the article is 4606 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Excess and surplus (E&S) line executives speaking at the National Association of Professional Surplus Line Offices' annual meeting echoed the theme that fluctuations in the property/casualty market were history. The executives warned that inadequate prices are a problem that continues to plague E&S companies. Other speakers told of how the economic damage caused by Hurricane Andrew will total between $10-15 billion, which will adversely affect the industry.

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Title: E&S execs. predict end to dramatic mkt. swings. (excess and surplus)
Author: Angela K. Calise
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 5, 1992
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n40Page: p3(1)

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