Rob Hamill: ??????Severe weather means State needs to work with insurers
Recent years have borne witness to an alarming increase in weather-related events which has made securing affordable insurance coverage an escalating challenge. In recent memory, severe weather events have inflicted substantial property damage around the country. From the floods of 2009 and 2015 to the 2010 ‘Big Freeze’, the 2018 ‘Beast from the East’, Storm Darwin in 2014, and Hurricane Ophelia in 2017, Ireland has faced its share of turbulent weather conditions. Such occurrences are poised to intensify both in frequency and extremity in the forthcoming decades, as the repercussions o...
Source: independent.ie
