adjusted 20 billion dollars of insurance claims. The Atlantic hurricane season, which usually runs from June through November, continued in high gear Monday. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 kilometres west of the Cape Verde Islands, Hurricane Danielle had yet to threaten any land as it spun northwestward. In the central Caribbean, Tropical Storm Earl disintegrated Monday south of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, prompting the U.S. National Hurricane Centre to downgrade the low-pressure system to a tropical wave.
