Regardless of tornado losses, Allstate posts better results than predicted

The largest publicly traded American home and auto insurance company, Allstate Corp., has posted its losses for the second quarter, following catastrophe expenses that broke insurance industry records; but its results weren’t as bad as had been predicted. Allstate’s catastrophe losses reached $2.34 billion, making that quarter one of the worst in the entire history of the company. It had already been anticipating significant losses as a result of April and May’s tornado and severe weather activity in the United States. That said, analysts had not anticipated the revenue to…

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