Key figures related to insurance claims due to the northern Osaka Earthquake as of Oct. 11, 2018

Oct. 19, 2018

The General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ) has released the following updated figures as of Oct. 11: 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	550	447	304	234,018
Kyoto	12,350	11,730	8,748	6,396,628
Osaka	139,436	137,574	110,090	81,382,112
Hyogo	10,305	9,341	6,544	5,360,517
Nara	2,249	2,096	1,516	1,100,862
Other prefectures	558	500	162	144,601
Total	165,448	161,688	127,364	94,618,738

*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*2 The number of settled cases includes those where claims were paid as well as those where claims were withdrawn as a result of actual investigations.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	1,279.5
2	The 2016 Kumamoto	Apr. 14, 2016	382.4
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, 2018)

(*)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.