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.

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.

An accident involving a U-Haul truck looked fairly routine until investigators learned all 4 parties were Facebook friends.

Hurricane Sandy is a storm with little precedent on the East Coast and is likely to trigger a significant volume of commercial-property claims, according to officials at insurance broker Willis North America.