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Climate Change Causes Insurers to Rethink Price of Risk After Hurricane Sandy

Author: PBS NewsHour

Narrator: PBS NewsHour

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/21/2012


Synopsis

The insurance industry looks at historical data, old and new, in order to assess the risk for potential disasters and put a price on premiums. But when Sandy hit the Northeast, some insurance companies reconsidered if they priced insurance high enough for the greater risks brought on by climate change. Paul Solman reports.

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