The Insurance Association of Jamaica, IAJ, says it has paid out over $54 billion to settle claims from clients whose property was damaged by Hurricane Melissa.
Just under $52 billion of that overall sum was paid to settle property insurance claims.
About $2.4 billion was paid to settle motor insurance claims.
St. James accounts for $30 billion of the claims settled thus far, or 59 per cent of the overall sum.
In a statement last Friday the IAJ says insurance companies received 9,340 claims from clients relating to the Category 5 hurricane which struck on October 28, 2025.
It says of that number, 8,357 have been settled. Nine hundred and eighty-three claims remain outstanding.
The IAJ says commercial and residential property claims account for 740 of the outstanding claims.
It says St. Elizabeth has one of the lowest insurance penetration rates in the country.
This it says, explains why, despite the devastation wrought on the parish by Melissa, that insurance claims have been so few.
