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Monday 26 November 2012

Would you insure this house?

An article from the Guardian about the refusal of insurance companies to continue to offer protection against flooding. This follows the increased number of claims due to our increasingly volatile weather.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/nov/26/flood-insurance-talks-reach-crisis-point?intcmp=122





Flooding in Somerset


 Use the concepts of Marginal Cost and Marginal Revenue to justify the decisions of the profit maximising insurance companies.

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