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The nature of the beast

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With hurricanes increasing in frequency by 35% in the 15 years since Hurricane Andrew struck, Jane Bernstein looks at how far the insurance market has progressed in that time and asks if it has the modelling and human resources balance right yet

Some 15 years ago, Hurricane Andrew struck the north-western Bahamas, southern Florida and south-west Louisiana, and was the costliest natural disaster in US history - until it was surpassed by

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