2 September 2016Insurance

Eye watering loss: what would the Great Fire of London cost today?

A disaster on a similar scale to the Great Fire of London in 1666, which destroyed around a quarter of all the housing stock in the UK capital, would cost a staggering £499 billion if it happened today.

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