Damage 05
Damage 05 :
Claims to be paid to policy holders as a consequence of a catastrophe. Insurance Industry Disaster "Disasters combine two elements: events and vulnerable people. A disaster occurs when a disaster agent (the event) exposes the vulnerability of individuals and communities in such a way that their lives are directly threatened or sufficient harm has been done to their community's economic and social structures to undermine their ability to survive. A disaster is fundamentally a socio-economic phenomenon. It is an extreme but not necessarily abnormal state of everyday life in which the continuity of community structures and processes temporarily fails. Social disruption may typify a disaster but not social disintegration" (IFRC, 1993, pp. 12-13). In: ZEF dp46.pdf Disaster Relief
