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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (25780)	9/14/1999 4:24:00 PM
From: Benkea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Timothy: "Also, those homeowners have higher hurricane deductibles (mandatory 10k in Florida with their insurance pool from what I've heard)." There is no "mandatory" 10k deductible here; however, most policies have a ten PERCENT deductible for wind storm damage - ouch!

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (25780)	9/14/1999 4:27:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Thanks for the answer Timothy. I am aware of the insurance companies credit lines and somewhat familiar with their investing strategy. Still on a relative basis their equity portfolios are huge, even that they are a much smaller percentage of their fix income portfolio. Due to the substantial gains in stocks in recent years and mediocre fix income portfolio performance I assume they will tend to sell the winners - e.g. stocks which will also not hurt much less their capital base. BWDIK Haim