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Lessons learned from a painful year in insurance

Agents and brokers, insurers and policyholders have all learned from 2017's unrelenting hurricanes and wildfires, and will carry that knowledge with them going forward.

By Larry Chasin | Updated on March 21, 2018
Agents and brokers, insurers and policyholders have all learned from 2017's unrelenting hurricanes and wildfires, and will carry that knowledge with them going forward. Natural disasters hit the U.S. hard in 2017.

As if it weren’t enough in 2017 to have back-to-back hurricanes and flooding in the Southeast, California’s wine country also took a beating.

Ferocious wildfires spread quickly through homes, businesses and vineyards, jumping highways to burn nearly everything in their path.

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