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The Texas Department of Insurance received 1,201 justified complaints out of nearly 900,000 claims originating from Hurricanes Ike and Dolly in 2008. These complaints represent less than one quarter of 1 percent of consumers who reported problems with their insurance claims, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. Insured losses for Dolly’s 50,000 claims were estimated at $500 million. The number of claims from Ike topped 800,000 with insured losses in excess of $10 billion. Between 95 percent and 100 percent of all of Ike claims have been settled, the ICT said.
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