Key figures related to insurance claims due to the northern Osaka Earthquake as of Sep. 10, 2018

Sep. 20, 2018

The General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ) has released the following updated figures as of Sep. 10: the number of inquiries (*1), the number of settled cases (*2), the number of claim payments, and the total amount of claims paid for "Earthquake Insurance on Dwelling Risks".

The figures below were gathered from insurance companies that write earthquake insurance.


Region / Prefecture	Number of inquiries (*1)	Number of settled cases (*2)	Number of claim payments	Total amount of claims paid (in thousands of yen)
Shiga	479	415	264	205,392
Kyoto	11,259	10,553	7,839	5,774,151
Osaka	129,329	125,874	99,627	74,955,144
Hyogo	8,982	7,976	5,427	4,550,628
Nara	1,980	1,900	1,342	1,014,475
Other prefectures	464	393	133	102,749
Total	152,493	147,111	114,632	86,602,539

*1 The number of inquiries includes the number of cases where insurance companies received requests for damage investigations, inquiries about earthquake insurance coverage, and requests for advice on policyholder contracts. The number includes inquiries for both buildings and contents.

*2 The number of settled cases includes those where claims were paid as well as those where claims were withdrawn as a result of actual investigations. It also includes cases that were resolved when insurance companies received inquiries.

10 Largest Claims Paid for Earthquake Insurance on Dwelling Risks

(in billions of yen)


	Earthquake (Region name)	Date	Claims Paid
1	The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku (*)	Mar. 11, 2011	1,274.9
2	The 2016 Kumamoto	Apr. 14, 2016	375.3
3	Hyogo-ken Nanbu	Jan. 17, 1995	78.3
4	Miyagi-ken-oki (*)	Apr. 7, 2011	32.4
5	Fukuoka ken Seiho-oki	Mar. 20, 2005	17.0
6	Geiyo	Mar. 24, 2001	16.9
7	Niigata-ken Chuetsu	Oct. 23, 2004	14.9
8	Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki	Jul. 16, 2007	8.2
9	Fukuoka-ken Seiho-oki	Apr. 20, 2005	6.4
10	Tokachi-oki	Sep. 26, 2003	6.0

Source : Japan Earthquake Reinsurance Co., Ltd. (as of March 31, 2017)
(*)The total claims paid for The Great East Japan Earthquake is the total of The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Miyagi-ken-oki, Shizuoka-ken Tobu, and Fukushima-ken Hamadori at 1,311.3 billion yen.