NU Online News Service, May 23, 3:19 p.m. EDT

Insurers are once again responding to a community reduced to debris by a massive tornado, this time in Joplin, Mo.

American Family Insurance spokesman Steve Witmer calls it a “tragic weekend” for the city of about 50,000 in Jasper County, near the state’s borders with Kansas and Oklahoma.

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