Insured losses from Hermine will likely approach $500 million, with total economic damages close to $1 billion, according to an early estimate from Karen Clark & Company.

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Hermine is weakening as it moves farther inland across Floridas Panhandle and southeastern Georgia, after largely sparing energy assets in the Gulf of Mexico.

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