Home insurance rates pressure real estate 

Hurricane Andrew dealt a huge blow to the Florida home insurance market in 1992. The real estate market reeled. Insurers paid out an estimated $16 billion in claims, and home insurance rates in the state doubled in the decade following the disaster. Some coastal regions were hit with larger increases in that time.

Flash forward to the 2004 hurricane season.

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