It could cost insurance companies $1.2bn for the bridge damages and millions more for the six deaths.

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    8 months ago

    Oh yeah because insurance companies paying what they’re contractually obliged to is “loss”

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      8 months ago

      Well yes, unplanned expenses in excess of income are “loss”, regardless of if you’re contractually obligated to do so.

      I imagine the insurance agency didn’t plan to pay for an entire bridge this fiscal year, so they’re going to have one bigass loss.

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        8 months ago

        Insurance has overhead insurance for these things.

        And if they don’t they should fail.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah and these reinsurances are also insurance companies, so the statement “insurances could lose up to 3bn” is still right.

          Even further: most losses are booked by reinsurance companies, cause prior insurances mostly don’t cover big sums on there own. It’s like “10 million for me and the rest for you.”

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        8 months ago

        No, but they planned for one bridge every 50 years. So this is that year.

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      8 months ago

      Insurance thought they found an infinite money glitch to get big sums of money forever unless the bridge collapses, but it relied on the bridge not collapsing. Whoops.