Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unchanging aspect of the seasons in war-ravaged Bosnia- Herzegovina. As Muslim authorities announced an official death toll of 14,364 for six months of war, even soccer fields, like the one pictured in Sarajevo, were being converted to graveyards. Last week the U.S. State Department revealed evidence of yet another massacre by ethnic Serb forces of some 3,000 Muslims in the city of Brcko last spring. The approaching winter could exact a far worse toll. U.N. relief officials warned that as many as 400,000 people in Bosnia could die of exposure and starvation. Said Cedric Thornberry, civilian...
...reserves arrived in convoys of motor homes. Others flew in from as far away as Alaska and California. Since the storm had knocked out telephone lines, Allstate rushed to set up its own communications system, consisting of 80 shortwave radio units, 850 pagers, 173 cellular phones and a toll-free number. Allstate expects to pay out $1.2 billion to cover more than 121,000 damage claims as a result of Andrew...
...been hit with more than $8 billion in Andrew-related claims, making the hurricane the most costly single calamity to strike the industry since the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 (cost: $6 billion, after inflation). With claims continuing to pour in, Andrew threatens to take a painful toll on the already battered property-casualty insurance industry and its 100 million policyholders. The final bill, analysts predict, is likely to top $10 billion. While most well- capitalized insurers are expected to weather the storm, less anchored firms are in danger of being blown away, leaving consumers stuck with...
...string of mishaps to plague the insurance industry this year. In April an overflowing Chicago River flooded the city's downtown district, costing insurers $300 million in claims. A month later, Los Angeles was rocked by the worst civilian riot in the U.S. since the Civil War. The insurance toll: $1 billion. Then came a series of major hailstorms in Texas, Florida and Kansas. They cost insurers a combined $700 million. And two weeks after Andrew, another lethal hurricane, Iniki, smashed into Hawaii, causing $1.4 billion in damages. In all, property and casualty insurers have paid out a record...
Hurricanes and other disasters take a toll on insurers...