innumerable

$1,600,000,000
in claims is expected from the California wildfires that ravaged the state in October 2007.

Source: Risk Management Solutions

12,500,000
homes in California reported to be at risk of high-severity wildfires because of the increasing wild land-urban interface.

Source: Colorado State University

2,000,000
children live and/or work on farms. Of the 2 million, approximately 100 die and more than 20,000 are seriously injured every year in farm-related incidents.

Source: KidsHealth website

56%
The percentage by which fatal single-vehicle crashes could be reduced because of electronic stability control (ESC). Multiple-vehicle crashes could be reduced by 32 percent.

10,000
crashes could be avoided every year if all vehicles were equipped with ECS.

34
vehicles earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s TOP SAFETY PICK award for 2008.

Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

20%
of policyholders say they have shopped for a new homeowners insurer in the past year, but only 12 percent reported switching carriers.

Source: J.D. Powers and Associates

65%
of American corporations have initiated at least one lawsuit in the past year.

Source: Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P.

$2,000,000,000
in directors & officers insured losses from subprime credit crisis.

Source: Guy Carpenter

1
vehicle in the United States is stolen every 26.4 seconds.

Source: National Insurance Crime Bureau

1,192,809
motor vehicles were reported stolen in 2006, which is 42,417 fewer than in 2005.

Source: National Insurance Crime Bureau

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008 12:00:00 AM. Modified: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:26:49 PM.

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