Aon Benfield's monthly Global Catastrophe Recap is out for September 2017, and the report details both the financial and physical impact of the month's record setting natural disasters in the U.S., Mexico and across the globe.
Hurricanes strike the U.S.
The report begins first with Hurricane Irma, which first crossed through the northern Caribbean as a Category 5 hurricane, before becoming the first Category 4 storm to make landfall in Florida since 2004 (Hurricane Charley). At least 124 people were killed or missing and hundreds more were injured as major damage was recorded in the U.S., Cuba, Barbuda, the Virgin Islands and the northern Leeward islands.
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