首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
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
admin
2013-02-16
71
问题
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.
According to the passage, "Allstate Insurance" most likely refers to______.
选项
A、one of the property and casualty insurers in the U.S.
B、the only insurance company responsible for the damage claims by Andrew
C、the insurance industry as a whole
D、the biggest insurance company in the U.S.
答案
A
解析
推理题。根据文章第一段的第一句内容“In the days immediately following hurricane Andrew’sdeadly visit to South Florida,Allstate Insurance hastily dispatched more than 2,000 extra claim adjusters to thedevastated area to assist the 200 stationed there”可知,南佛罗里达发生台风Andrew后,Allstate Insurance立刻分派2000多名调停者去受灾区域协助驻扎在外的200名人员。由此可知,正确答案是A选项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/cImO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Theuniversityshould______thefunctionofthealumnifundsothatitsimportancewillbebetterappreciatedbytheschool’sg
Manypeopleproposedthatanationalcommitteebeformedtodiscuss______toexistingmasstransitsystems.
Healthyguiltisawarningsignalthateithersomethingdangerousisabouttohappenorsomethinghasalreadyhappenedthatneed
Theoldcoupledecidedto_____aboyandagirlthoughtheyhadthreechildrenoftheirown.
Asthedirectorcan’tcometothereception,I’mrepresentingthecompany________.
Manycriticsofthecurrentwelfaresystemarguethatexistingwelfareregulationsfosterfamilyinstability.Theymaintainthat
PublicationofthissurveyhadoriginallybeenintendedtocoincidewiththeannualmeetingsoftheWorldBankandtheInternati
Inadditiontoredistributingincomes,inflationmayaffectthetotalrealincomeandproductionofthecommunity.Anincreasei
OxfordandCambridgeUniversityBoatClubshavebothtakentheopportunitytotraveltoSpainthismonthtotraininlesstestin
Everytimeapersoneatssomethinghemakesanutritionaldecision.Heacceptsorrejectsthefoodavailabletohimathomefor
随机试题
SouthAmericaLocatedmostly(most)inthesouthernhalfoftheearth,SouthAmericaisavery【C1】________(interest)contin
试述病例分型在医疗质量控制中的意义。
新设立的房地产开发企业,应先到房地产开发主管部门核定房地产开发企业资质等级,后到所在地工商部门办理营业执照。()
人工费的估算成本是指物业服务企业的人员费用,包括管理服务人员的工资、社会保险、按规定提取的福利费以及()等。
教学要按照学科的逻辑系统和认识发展的顺序进行,使学生系统地掌握基础知识、基本技能,形成严密的逻辑能力。这遵循的是()
【2015年四川.单选】教师必须做到以身作则,为人师表,这体现的教师劳动特点是()。
我国《合同法》第122条规定:“因当事人一方的违约行为,侵害对方人身、财产权益的,受损害方有权选择依照本法要求其承担违约责任或者依照其他法律要求其承担侵权责任。”请分析:根据本条规定分析对侵权责任和违约责任竞合的处理。
小李今年毕业后,在一家计算机图书销售公司担任市场部助理,主要的工作职责是为部门经理提供销售信息的分析和汇总。请你根据销售数据报表(“Excel.xlsx”文件),按照如下要求完成统计和分析工作:保存“Excel.xlsx”文件。
_____домой,пошёлдождь.Ипоэтомуябылмокрым.
Although【21】______circuitsmadecomputerssmaller,theprocessingunitsstillconsisted【22】______anumberofcircuits
最新回复
(
0
)