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Ten Natural Disasters with Greatest Insured Losses
August 12, 2012 | MunichRE

MunichRE has published a list of the ten natural disasters with the highest insured losses between 1980 and 2011. Six of the top ten are hurricanes, three are earthquakes and one is a regional flooding event.


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