Tornados and hailstorms that struck the Midwest creating a wide area of destruction this past weekend have generated thousands of claims for insurers.

The top two insurers in the worst-hit states of Missouri and Kansas report auto and homeowners claims of well over 20,000 in the two states and higher than 50,000 for the region.

Dave Dasgupta, a spokesman for Jersey City, N.J.-based Insurance Services Office, said Property Claim Services, a subsidiary of ISO, has declared the storm events from March 11-13 in the four-state region of Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Indiana a catastrophe.

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