Most frequent natural disaster in first half of 2013 was flooding. In the first half of the year, Swiss Re, the second biggest re-insurance company in the world after Munich Re, estimated economic losses caused by natural disasters at $56 billion and deaths caused by these disasters at around 7,000. Insured damages reached a figure of $20 billion, of which €17 billion was by natural disasters, mainly flooding. In June, heavy rain in Central and Eastern Europe led to extensive flooding and...