$1 billion Oklahoma Hail Storm
Insurance companies likely will pay out more than $1 billion to cover damage from last month’s back-to-back storms that spawned tornadoes and large hail, industry representatives said Wednesday.
The May 10 storms bearing hail and tornadoes that swept through central Oklahoma will cost insurance companies about $595 million, according to an estimate by ISO’s Property Claim Services unit, which tracks catastrophic insured losses.
However, that estimate does not include damage from a major hailstorm that battered the metro area May 16.
Losses from the hail likely will exceed those of the May 10 storms, said Marc Young, Oklahoma assistant insurance commissioner.
If the hailstorm damage approaches that of the May 10 storms, the combined losses would top $1 billion.
Some insurance companies have been processing more than 700 hail-damaged vehicles per day, Young said. Other companies have assessed northwest Oklahoma City neighborhoods where more than 90 percent of the roofs needed to be replaced, he said.
“There was a very serious series of storms, and the insured losses continue to rise,” Young said. “We had an absolutely horrendous month of May.”
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