Even before the attack this week, the cost of commercial insurance had started to rebound from historic lows caused by nearly a decade of cutthroat competition.
If anything, it's got slightly worse as Miliband's personal ratings – whose poverty was meant to be the Tories' insurance policy – have started climbing, even on one poll overtaking Cameron's for the first time.
It is understood that the insurance industry has started discussions with Mr Letwin about the issue, which has concerned many MPs whose constituencies were flooded.
And the health insurance industry has started a lobbying and social media effort to drive home its contention that popular regulatory provisions in the law cannot survive if the Supreme Court strikes down the mandate that all Americans buy health insurance.
Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, has started paying out the first of $4.5bn£3.6bnbn) of claims related to tropical storm Harvey and Hurricane Irma, which wreaked havoc in the southern US and Caribbean.
The biggest issuer of directors' and officers' liability insurance, American International Group, has started reimbursing companies up to $50,000 for hiring scandal advisers.
There is at least one area where the insurance industry has started taking climate change seriously — risk modeling.
A universal health insurance program has started in Taiwan since 1995 [ 4] and covered nearly all inhabitants (21,869,478 beneficiaries at the end of 2002, equivalent to a coverage rate of 97.1%) [ 5].
Digital insurance firm Singapore Life has started 2019 with a bang after it raised $33 million across two investments as it eyes new market expansions in Southeast Asia.
