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Riot damage is most expensive in insurance history
#1
I'm sure the insurance companies are wringing their hands at this point with all the devastation out west and in the cities that the rioters burned to the ground.

The Property Claim Services lists 2020 above the "catastrophe" list, which is the highest level for classification.

Quote:The vandalism and looting following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police will cost the insurance industry more than any other violent demonstrations in recent history, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The protests that took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring were mostly peaceful, but the arson, vandalism and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims — eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King.

How it works: A company called Property Claim Services (PCS) has tracked insurance claims related to civil disorder since 1950. It classifies anything over $25 million in insured losses as a "catastrophe," and reports that the unrest this year (from May 26 to June 8) will cost the insurance industry far more than any prior one.
  • That number could be as much as $2 billion and possibly more, according to the Insurance Information Institute (or Triple-I), which compiles information from PCS as well as other firms that report such statistics.
  • The protests related to George Floyd's death are also different because they are so widespread. "It's not just happening in one city or state — it's all over the country," Loretta L. Worters of the Triple-I tells Axios.
  • "And this is still happening, so the losses could be significantly more."


And that's just the riots. We also have hurricanes and other natural disasters:


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  • Hurricane Isaias will cost $3 billion-$5 billion in insurance losses, per Risk Management Solutions (RMS).

  • The wildfire season has just begun this year, but already insured losses are at $1.5 billion, Triple-I tells Axios.

  • That compares with $18 billion for all of 2018 and $15 billion for all of 2017 (the 2019 numbers aren't available yet).

  • "In California alone, wildfires have already burned 2.2 million acres in 2020 — more than any year on record. And the 2020 wildfire season still has a way to go," says Worters of Triple-I.

Losses for insurance companies far exceed the prior record of $775 million from the 1992 Rodney King demonstrations.

The Backstory:


Quote:The last time PCS compiled insurance losses for a "civil disorder event" was in April 2015, when rioting erupted in Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray from a neck injury while being transported in a police van.
  • "Those riots did not result in insured losses reaching $25 million when it occurred, PCS’s threshold for a catastrophe," according to an article on the Insurance Information Institute's website that catalogs insured losses of this magnitude. (It shows that most of the biggest episodes happened in the 1960s).

  • "For the first time, PCS has designated this civil disorder and those that followed across the United States from May 26 to June 8 as a multi-state catastrophe event."

  • Also on the top 10 list: The 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles; the 1967 Detroit riot that inspired the Gordon Lightfoot song "Black Day in July"; and the great New York City blackout of 1977.
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 As of June 8, 2020 the cost in damage in 20 states across the U.S. comes to $1-2billion. That's 'BILLION' WITH A "B"!

Activists say, "Hold my beer", as the rioters and arsonists continue their destruction that will, most likely, last until the election, and probably beyond.

"They" are trying to break the United States; A crippled nation is easier to seize.

BUT "THEY" WON'T WIN!  
#2
I hope this means the chain stores that were looted won't rebuild.  To heck with that.  If people destroy the stores, then they're gone.  No more looting for electronics or fashionable clothing.

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NWO/AmeroDemocrat Alliance executing their modern day Cloward-Piven strategy !!!  tinybigeyes

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