Updated data indicates insured losses from storms that socked Ohio in late June and early July totaled $845 million in the state, or nearly double the initial estimate released by an insurance industry trade group. The series of storms between June 29 and July 2 still ranks third among the costliest Ohio catastrophes in modern history in terms of insured losses, according to the Ohio Insurance Institute. The Hurricane Ike windstorm in September 2008 tops the list with insured losses of more than $1.2 billion, and the Xenia tornado outbreak in 1974 ranks second.
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