PCS puts initial Irma claims toll from US at $18.0bn

Data provider Property Claim Services (PCS) has issued an
initial estimate for Hurricane Irma insured losses in US
territories of $18.03bn, The Insurance
Insider can reveal.
Market sources told this publication that Florida accounts for
$13.11bn - or 73 percent - of the claims tally, with an additional
$3.59bn coming from the US Virgin Islands.
Georgia claims were estimated at $822mn, with South Carolina on
$188mn and North Carolina at $33.6mn.
The figure for Puerto Rico, which has since been...