Questão número 636861

Read the text below in order to answer questions 17 and 18.

U.K.'s Cox increases World Trade Center loss estimates

Cox Insurance, a leading Lloyd's underwriter and retail insurer, announced that additional claims from the WTC (World Trade Center) disaster have raised its loss estimates from $96.5 million to between $122.5 million and $180 million.

The announcement highlights the difficulty many insurers are facing in estimating the exact amount of the losses they may eventually pay as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks. More than four months after the devastation occurred, there's still a wide gulf in estimates of what the eventual cost will be. The highest figure is around $70 billion, while lower ones go down to $29 billion.

According to the author, the exact amount of the losses

• A.

  is $70 billion.

• B.

  has been paid by Cox Insurance.

• C.

  will soon be announced.

• D.

  has not been defined.

• E.

  was calculated by Cox Insurance.