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To: luv2ski

Oh thanks...Hopefully they get a handle on them soon. The Insurance companies are going to be bankrupt between these fires and the flooding in Florida.


54 posted on 06/26/2012 8:45:32 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

Insurance firms today deal with the potential for these large regional catastrophes by selling what they call “cat bonds.” While normally the bonds gain value as the insurance firm accrues profits, a catastrophe vacuums them out for a certain number of years.


59 posted on 06/26/2012 8:49:13 PM PDT by raccoonnookkeeper (I keep raccoons in a nook!)
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To: napscoordinator

Oh thanks...Hopefully they get a handle on them soon. The Insurance companies are going to be bankrupt between these fires and the flooding in Florida.


When people say insurance companies make big money, many times they are looking at the good years. I bad year like this, many times, wipes out years of profits. This fire looks like it could take out a company or two.


117 posted on 06/27/2012 5:26:18 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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