{"id":158764,"date":"2025-08-06T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/black-rainstorm-may-be-among-citys-most-claimed-natural-disasters\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:35:20","slug":"black-rainstorm-may-be-among-citys-most-claimed-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/black-rainstorm-may-be-among-citys-most-claimed-natural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Black rainstorm may be among city\u2019s most-claimed natural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThis week\u2019s record-breaking deluge may rank among Hong Kong\u2019s costliest natural disasters for insurers, as the owners of cars and properties started to submit claims for damages caused by 11 hours of the highest category of rainstorm.<br \/>\nThe payouts may top the damages caused by last month\u2019s Typhoon Wipha, but will be less than the HK$1.54 billion (US$196.2 million) havoc wrought by the last black rainstorm in September 2023, thanks to the mitigating measures taken by the government and business&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/banking-finance\/article\/3320958\/2025-black-rainstorm-may-be-among-hong-kongs-costliest-natural-disasters-insurance?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black rainstorm may be among city\u2019s most-claimed natural disasters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; This week\u2019s record-breaking deluge may rank among Hong Kong\u2019s costliest natural disasters for insurers, as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-FiI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55811,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tender-deadline-for-a-west-rail-site-extended-to-thursday-due-to-rainstorm\/","url_meta":{"origin":158764,"position":0},"title":"Tender deadline for a West Rail site extended to Thursday due to rainstorm","date":"May 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The tender deadline for a large residential site in Yuen Long has been extended to Thursday owing to the black rainstorm warning, according to MTR Corp. 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