(Bloomberg) -- Travelers Cos. wasburned again by Mother Nature.

Alan Schnitzer has been contending with volatile weather sincebecoming chief executive officer in late 2015, extending a trend ofrecent years in which storm seasons last longer than usual andstrike regions that previously weren’t considered vulnerable.

There were more than 400 tornadoes in the first quarter inthe U.S., quadruple the three-year average, according to National Weather Service data.

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