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...The pledge comes three years after the insurance market apologised for its role in the trade, which included extending crucial insurance to voyages and even insuring slaves as cargo....
...Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money. And a run of unusually destructive bad weather has brought additional losses for their property-insurance businesses....
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