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Insurers count cost of Victoria’s bushfires

The most damaging fires in the country’s history follow at least two other recent weather related events in Australia

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has revealed the preliminary cost of the February 2009 bushfires in Victoria, which killed at least 200 people and brought much of the state to a standstill, at A$790mn.

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