Home Insurers' Secret Tactics Cheat Fire Victims, Hike Profits

``Fighting an insurance company is like staring down the wrong end of a cannon,'' Bennett says. An unprecedented number of people stared down that cannon after Hurricane Katrina. The August 2005 storm killed more than 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi, left 500,000 people homeless and cost insurers $41.1 billion. ................
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