Disasters are unwelcome - especially for reinsurers, or so you would expect. Investors certainly think so, dumping their shares after tragic events. But are they missing a trick? Catastrophes are in fact a premium hiking opportunity, as Lex's Richard Stovin-Bradford explains to Stuart Kirk.

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