Insurance carriers affected by the Superstorm Sandy are trying to assess how to get their operations back online and running normally and once that is done they can look at how their disaster recovery and business continuity plans played out in the face of a difficult challenge.

Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide says Superstorm Sandy will cause between $7 billion and $15 billion in insured losses.

Investors who have put their money into specialist financial bonds which cover insurance companies from huge natural disasters are unlikely to be hit with big losses from monster storm Sandy even though it is one of the biggest ever to hit the United States.

Investors who have put their money into specialist financial bonds which cover insurance companies from huge natural disasters are unlikely to be hit with big losses from monster storm Sandy even though it is one of the biggest ever to hit the United States.

Millions of people across the U.S. Northeast stricken by massive storm Sandy will attempt to resume normal lives on Wednesday as companies, markets and airports reopen, despite grim projections of power and mass transit outages lasting several more days.

Agents from Long Island, New Jersey and Delaware speak on preparing for Sandy and handling claims in the storms aftermath

While it is too early to give insured-loss estimates for storm Sandy, Risk Management Solutions says the impact on the East Coast appears much more severe than 2011's Hurricane Irene. Following are images of the damage left behind by the storm.

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