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01/04/2012
Restoring Order in Chaos
Claims Magazine - January 2012
Both Zurich and Swiss Re have estimated that catastrophe-related economic losses in 2011 will be around $350 billion, the highest in recent memory. The year included the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a highly destructive earthquake in New Zealand, flooding in Thailand and severe storms in the United States beginning in April and continuing through Hurricane Irene in August. In this cover story, Crawford's CEO Jeffrey Bowman discusses this unprecedented year of global natural catastrophes and the lessons claims organizations can learn from them.