Wind and hail storms frequently cause severe property damagethroughout the U.S. While hail storms most frequently impact theGreat Plains and Midwest, every state in the nation issusceptible.
Hail, in particular, has become such an issue that earlier thisyear, the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety conducted the first-ever indoor hailstorm in its ResearchCenter in South Carolina in an effort to research building productsand ways to educate consumers.
State Farm reports that damage caused by wind and hail cost theinsurer and its policyholders more than $3.9 billion in 2012.
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