FLORIDA BUYS CAT BOND PUT OPTION FROM BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY
The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund has agreed to a creative way to fund potential hurricane losses, and create liquidity, agreeing to pay Berkshire Hathaway $244 million for its agreement to buy $4 billion in 30-year tax-exempt bonds if the Cat Fund suffers insured hurricane losses in excess of $25 billion this year. Press reports state that the Cat Fund is looking to this mechanism to enable it to act quickly to reimburse insurers for incurred losses.
This post written by Rollie Goss.
