Climate change growing risk for insurers -industry

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 Catastrophe Fraud

Insurers are struggling to assess the risks from climate change, industry officials say, with the floods in Australia and Brazil highlighting the potential losses from greater extremes of weather. Scientists say a warmer world will cause more intense drought, floods, cyclones as well as rising sea levels and the insurance industry says the number of weather-related disasters has already soared over the past several decades.


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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL3E7CJ05Z20110119
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