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The company initially told investors that their reinsurance treaty provided $1.3 billion of coverage; leading the Street to believe total damages would be below $1.3 billion.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "a271d4d1-acd8-48c3-908c-efb31b9d3c7a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.07, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.71 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "The hours clause and the radius clause are the key term that are going to be in everybody's [treaty]. So they cite those. The whole PCS thing, honestly, I think there's some bluster there, that they're [MCY] are just posturing.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "pull-quote", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "1ccabc95-2ba8-48e7-8a5a-a9064219be95", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.58 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "The Company's catastrophe reinsurance treaty allows for the combining of events that occur within a 150-mile radius as a single occurrence", "attrs": null, "subkind": "pull-quote", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "a666f7c9-3508-4f9c-891c-1106bdbfd5c7", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.07, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.84 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "Additionally, if each individual event is classified as its own catastrophic event by the Property Claims Service (\"PCS\"), a unit of the Insurance Services Office, each event can be considered a separate occurrence.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "pull-quote", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "d57a1e82-5584-4741-bb57-c1ebde0ca1ad", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "\"The Company's catastrophe reinsurance treaty allows for the combining of events that occur within a 150-mile radius as a single occurrence\" — MCY PR. \"The hours clause and the radius clause are the key term that are going to be in everybody's [treaty]. So they cite those. The whole PCS thing, honestly, I think there's some bluster there, that they're [MCY] are just posturing.\" — Reinsurance expert. \"Additionally, if each individual event is classified as its own catastrophic event by the Property Claims Service (\"PCS\"), a unit of the Insurance Services Office, each event can be considered a separate occurrence. 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