BUSINESSES are starting to make insurance claims for being knocked out of operation by Cyclone Debbie while homeowners are slowly recording damage.
About 3500 claims had rolled in after Cyclone Debbie battered North Queensland, the Insurance Council of Australia said on Thursday afternoon. Flooding has now stretched to the state’s southeast, further compounding the damage bill.
“It’s going to be very big,” Andrew Steel, the Townsville-based chief executive of Steel Pacific Insurance Brokers, told The Courier-Mail.