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Aon Benfield: June U.S. Insured Losses Near $2 Billion
Chicago-based Aon Benfield's latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report says that U.S. catastrophe events caused up to $2 billion in insured losses.
The most costly event, according to the report, was hail in parts of Texas and New Mexico. According to the Insurance Council of Texas, insured losses in the state will exceed $1 billion, with more than 100,000 claims filed by the end of June.
A windstorm in the central and eastern states has yielded 50,000 claims, and the well-publicized Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado has destroyed 347 homes. Another fire in the state has claimed 259 residences.
"The Colorado wildfires proved to be the two most damaging fires in state history, and also two of the costliest," says Steve Jakubowski, President of Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development center.
Finally, preliminary economic damages from Tropical Storm Debby in Florida were listed at $100 million.
Read Aon Benfield's report with losses of this magnitude, for March of this year.
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