It’s been a bad year for insurance companies as they could face as much as $10 billion from weather-related losses this year alone from severe tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. But what does this mean for the catastrophe bond market? Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times explains.
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