NU Online News Service, Oct. 26, 12:53 p.m. EST

Hurricane Irene is primarily to blame for $34.6 million in pretax catastrophe losses during the third quarter for HCC Insurance Holdings Inc., and the insurer also expects a pretax net increase to loss reserves of $27.5 million.

HCC says pretax earnings for the third quarter will be about $83 million.

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