Hurricane Matthew — which wreaked havoc in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina and flooded large portions of North Carolina in 2016 — is a grim lesson on why companies need business interruption insurance.
The hurricane damaged or destroyed more than one million structures and cost $10 billion in damage.
Although the theme parks in Central Florida shut down for only a few days, businesses in flood-ravaged North Carolina were much slower to reopen.
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