Six Boeing 737 fuselages were ejected from a train that derailed along the Clark Fork River in Montana, sending three of the aircraft into the river.

Tornadoes, hail and windstorms that pounded the U.S. from the Rocky Mountains to the Tennessee Valley last month will probably cost insurers more than $1 billion, says Aon.

The storms that pounded vineyards in Southwestern France around Bordeaux and Cognac last month probably cost insurers as much as $1.2 billion, says Aon.

What does it take to insure a billion-dollar supertall building? Some extreme appetite for risk, for starters.