Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110314:08:46:00
Insurance companies taking a pummelling, as well. that's no surprise. catastrophe risk modelling company says japan's disaster could turn out to be the insurance industry's most expensive yet. it says losses covered by insurance could reach $35 billion u.s., and that's before the costs of the tsunami are factored in. the estimate takes into consideration damage to homes and businesses as well as agricultural losses. if the loss prediction is accurate, the cost will surpass all over natural disasters, including the 2005 hurricane katrina and the 1995 earthquake in kobe in japan. then losses wer...