Talk:Cyclone Val

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Did you know... that a lawsuit brought by William Shernoff against an insurance firm that refused to pay claims for damage from Cyclone Val in American Samoa yielded penalty payments of $86.7 million?

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Sources

This sandbox has a bunch of sources from an online newspaper archive. I'm sure a lot of that data could be very useful. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:49, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The damage total in Samoa was $331 million according to this source we've used several times. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:56, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

=Links of interest

:<ref name="Shernoff">{{cite web|url=http://shernoff.com/resources/representing-american-samoa/|title=Representing An Entire Country: American Samoa Government v. Affiliated FM Insurance|publisher=Shernoff|accessdate=December 16, 2010}}</ref> :<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=2128|title=American Samoa Cyclone Val |publisher=FEMA.gov|accessdate=December 16, 2010}}</ref> :<ref name=Disaster>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fema.gov/news/eventcounties.fema?id=2128|title=American Samoa Cyclone Val Major Disaster Declared December 13, 1991|accessdate=December, 17, 2010|publisher=US Department of Homeland Security:FEMA}}</ref> :<ref name="LDS">{{cite web|url=http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/21126/Cyclone-wreaks-ruin-in-Samoa.html|title=Cyclone Wreaks Ruin in Samoa|publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints|date=December 21, 1991|accessdate=December 16, 2010}}</ref> :<ref name=Val>{{Cite web|url=http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/basch/uhnpscesu/pdfs/sam/Pierson1992AS.pdf|title=Effect of Cyclone Val on areas proposed for inclusion in the National Park of American Samoa|work=A report to the U.S. National Park Service|page=3|accessdate=December 18, 2010|publisher=Botany.hawaii.edu}}</ref>