Reinsurance company Swiss Re said on Thursday that claims from wildfires in Los Angeles would be less than $700 million and would impact its first quarter results, the latest European reinsurer to disclose a hit from the January blaze. The wildfires killed more than two dozen people and destroyed or damaged more than 16,000 structures, charring an area bigger than Paris. Swiss Re's expected claims are less than those foreseen by its larger competitor Munich Re, which on Wednesday said it was factoring in about 1.2 billion euros ($1.26 billion) in losses, representing the biggest hit reported so far by a single European reinsurer for the catastrophe.