The author is Standard & Poor’s Financial Services Over the past few decades, we've witnessed an increase in extreme weather events. In 2013, reinsurance group Munich Reinsurance Co. recorded 888 loss-related natural catastrophe events worldwide, slightly down from the 936 events recorded in 2012 but above the 10-year average of 822. Of the 888 documented […]

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