Weakening Irma heads for Florida landfall
Hurricane Irma's insured loss potential declined as the massive
category 3 storm's centre pushed west and the eye travelled
toward the Florida peninsula with landfall expected between Naples
and the Fort Myers area south of Tampa-St Petersburg later today.
Irma has just a 10 percent chance of producing insured wind losses
in excess of $60bn under current track scenarios, catastrophe
modelling firm RMS said on its website today, noting that loss
estimates continue to decrease as the storm's expec
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