Thursday, September 29th, 2011 — A stormy spring and summer have helped pushed property and crop damage estimates past the $1 billion mark so far this year, the Kansas Department of Insurance reported Wednesday. That easily eclipses the state record of $700 million in 1992, when there were 365,500 claims. This years $1 billion estimate stems from 197,000 claims. About $18 million is attributed to crop damage. The rest is property damage. And more than half of it stems from wind and hail storms in east and south-central parts of the state last April. Flood losses arent included.