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In the days immediately following hurricane Andrew’s deadly visit to South Florida, Allstate Insurance hastily dispatched more t
In the days immediately following hurricane Andrew’s deadly visit to South Florida, Allstate Insurance hastily dispatched more t
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2013-02-16
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In the days immediately following hurricane Andrew’s deadly visit to South Florida, Allstate Insurance hastily dispatched more than 2,000 extra claim adjusters to the devastated area to assist the 200 stationed there. Many of the reserves arrived in convoys of motor homes. Others flew in from as far away as Alaska and California. Since the storm had knocked out telephone lines, Allstate rushed to set up its own communications system. Allstate expects to pay out 1.2 billion to cover more than 121,000 damage claims as a result of Andrew.
All told, U.S. property and casualty insurers have been hit with more than $8 billion in Andrew-related claims, making the hurricane the most costly single calamity to strike the industry since the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906(cost 6 billion, after inflation). With claims continuing to pour in, Andrew threatens to take a painful toll on the already battered property — casualty insurance industry and its 100 million policy-holders. The final bill, analysts predict, is likely to top 10 billion. While most well-capitalized insurers are expected to weather the storm, less anchored firms are in danger of being blown away, leaving U.S. consumers stuck with the tab. Says Sean Mooney, senior researcher at the Insurance Information Institute: "It will take years before the industry digs itself out from the wreckage left by Andrew. Some(companies)will be buried by it."
Hurricane Andrew is the latest in a string of mishaps to plague the American insurance industry this year. In April an overflowing Chicago River flooded the city’s downtown district, costing insurers $300 million in claims. A month later, Los Angeles was rocked by the worst civilian riot in the U.S. since the Civil War. The insurance toll: $1 billion. Then came a series of major hailstorms in Texas, Florida and Kansas. They cost insurers a combined $700 million. And two weeks after Andrew, another lethal hurricane, Iniki, smashed into Hawaii, causing $1.4 billion in damages. In all, property and casualty insurers have paid out a record 13 billion in claims so far this year, far surpassing the previous high of $7.6 billion in 1989, the year of Hurricane Hugo and California’s Bay Area earthquake. Just as in that year, when those catastrophes were followed by substantial increases in insurance premiums, insurers are already lobbying for rate relief.
Using context clues, we may infer that "stuck with the tab" most probably means______.
选项
A、caught in the hurricane
B、exposed to natural disasters
C、trapped in financial difficulties
D、extremely vulnerable to further damages
答案
C
解析
词汇题。根据本文内容可知,前面讲到的保险公司赔偿太多,可能会破产,所以消费者只能独自承担损失,陷于经济困境中。所以正确答案是C选项。
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