NEW ORLEANS–Three busloads of insurance claims professionals are due to get a firsthand look tomorrow at how Hurricane Katrina piled up a record for insured claims losses.

The tour through the miles of destruction left behind in New Orleans by the monster storm is being conducted by an industry member who suffered firsthand from its effects.

Thomas Brown, the president of E-Claim.com, who lives and works across the Mississippi River from the Crescent City in Gretna, La., saw the roof torn from his office and his home inundated by rains when the wind blew off his chimney.

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