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industry projection includes estimated wind, storm surge, and
inland flood losses resulting from Ian's landfalls in both
Florida and South Carolina, Verisk said.
However, the estimate range, the lower end of which was $42
billion, does not include elements such as losses to the
National Flood Insurance Program and any potential impacts of
litigation or social inflation that could lead to a total
insured industry loss of $60 billion.
The death toll from Hurricane Ian climbed past 80 on Sunday as
embattled residents in Florida and the Carolinas grappled with a
recovery expected to cost tens of billions of dollars, and some
officials faced criticism over their response to the storm.
Additionally, an estimated 628,285 homes and businesses were
still without power in Florida early on Monday after Hurricane
Ian crashed across the state last week.
About 1% of the total industry loss will come from the impacts
of Ian's South Carolina landfall, Verisk said.
U.S. property data and analytics company CoreLogic on Friday
pegged insured losses for Florida between $28 billion and $47
billion from Hurricane Ian, in what could be the costliest storm
for the state since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Recovery is expected to be slow and difficult due to inflation,
high interest rates, and labor and materials costs.
(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; Editing by
Dhanya Ann Thoppil)
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