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Any home or property owner watching the pictures of devastation out of Haiti as a result of this week's magnitude 7.2 earthquake — the leveled buildings and injured people pulled from the rubble — would be justified in asking: Am I covered?
That deadly earthquake struck Haiti on Sat., Aug. 14, 2021, and left at least 1,400 people dead and another 6,000 people injured. Catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Co.'s Caribbean Earthquake Reference Model estimated the insurable losses from the quake to be around $1.7 billion and the insured losses from the event to be around $250 million.
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Elana Ashanti Jefferson
Elana Ashanti Jefferson serves as ALM's PropertyCasualty360 Group Chief Editor. She is a veteran journalist and communications professional. Reach her by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
