Major insurers posted mixed results on Wednesday as the Allstate Corporation fell short of estimates because of catastrophe-related losses, while the life insurers MetLife and Prudential Financial had stronger results, helped by returns on their annuity businesses.
Unfortunately the last decade has been rocky for the business because of catastrophes like Sept. 11, Katrina and the recent financial meltdown.
Banished because of his catastrophe from the normalcy of American life, Eggers is forced to wander the globe, propelled by a mission and purpose seldom associated with Generation X, but with a seemingly paradoxical sense of absolute freedom.
Mr. Gore said that the three cabinet-level officials and three of Mr. Rumsfeld's top civilian deputies -- the deputy defense secretary, Paul D. Wolfowitz Douglass J. Feith, the under secretary for policy; and Stephen A. Cambone, the under secretary for intelligence -- should step aside because of "the catastrophe we are facing in Iraq".
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Despite the increases, property-liability premiums written declined 1.4percentt from a year earlier because of the higher cost of catastrophe reinsurance.
Even before the current Atlantic hurricane season started in June, American property insurers had run through a typical year's worth of catastrophe payouts because of an unusual string of severe natural disasters.
They should withdraw their forces from Afghanistan because their presence is the cause of catastrophe.
But now, even California is willing to conserve because officials know that, in the event of catastrophe, they will be forced to share anyway.
Clever because he pulled back from his previous warnings of catastrophe, but without downplaying the seriousness of the situation.
We are on the brink of catastrophe".
