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Japan earthquake and other catastrophes likely to erase close to 25 of profit for reinsurers

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Australia, Japan, New Zealand
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April 19 2011

Recent global catastrophes are likely to erase close to 25 of first quarter profits for reinsurers with exposure to the Japan and New Zealand earthquakes as well as the Australia floods, a recent MarketWatch article reported

Personal dwelling losses top $2 billion in Japan

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Japan
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June 9 2011

A recent Business Insurance article reported that Japanese insurers have paid almost $2.27 billion to cover approximately 125,000 claims associated with earthquake damage to personal dwellings stemming from the March 11 tsunami and earthquake that devastated Japan

Japan's government will likely bear most of the damages resulting from the earthquake

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Japan
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March 17 2011

According to a recent article in the New York Times, insurance and reinsurance companies from Japan and abroad, as well as hedge funds and other investors in catastrophe bonds, are expected to bear a relatively small portion of the losses stemming from the earthquake and resulting tsunami, which is expected to exceed $100 billion

Japan raises nuclear alert level not seen since Chernobyl

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Japan
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April 12 2011

Japan is planning to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven ("Major Event") on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), putting this emergency on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster

A reinsurance perspective: the aggregation of losses following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Japan
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December 23 2011

The converging events that led to the devastation in Japan will raise a number of issues relating to the aggregation of losses under reinsurance contracts

Japan reinsurance losses estimated at $30 billion

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Japan
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July 22 2011

Reinsurance broker Holborn reported that losses from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami could reach an all-time high for reinsurers at $30 billion, according to a recent article in the Insurance Insider

Lehman Brothers insolvency proceedings in the US, UK and Japan

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Japan, United Kingdom, USA
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September 16 2008

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (“Lehman Holdings”), the holding company for the fourth-largest United States investment bank, filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code on September 15, 2008, marking the largest US bankruptcy filing in history

Former Olympus chairman arrested for fraud

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Japan
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March 2 2012

Former Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and two other executives at leading camera manufacturer Olympus have been arrested in connection with their alleged involvement in an accounting fraud

Japan, Switzerland and Italy not doing enough to fight bribery of foreign public officials

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Italy, Japan, Switzerland
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February 13 2012

The governments of Japan, Italy and Switzerland have been criticised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for not doing enough to fight bribery of foreign officials

Update on Lehman Brothers insolvency proceedings in the US, UK and Japan

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Japan, United Kingdom, USA
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October 7 2008

On September 20, 2008, the Bankruptcy Court approved the sale of certain assets of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ("LBHI") and Lehman Brothers Inc. ("LBI"), including those related to its Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking businesses, to Barclays Capital, Inc. ("Barclays"

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Japan earthquake and other catastrophes likely to erase close to 25 of profit for reinsurers

Personal dwelling losses top $2 billion in Japan

Japan's government will likely bear most of the damages resulting from the earthquake

Japan raises nuclear alert level not seen since Chernobyl

A reinsurance perspective: the aggregation of losses following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Japan reinsurance losses estimated at $30 billion

Lehman Brothers insolvency proceedings in the US, UK and Japan

Former Olympus chairman arrested for fraud

Japan, Switzerland and Italy not doing enough to fight bribery of foreign public officials

Update on Lehman Brothers insolvency proceedings in the US, UK and Japan

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