Insurance Liability Valuation 30 June 2016

EQC commissioned Melville Jessup Weaver to carry out this report, which provides information about EQC’s insurance liabilities and reinsurance recoveries for use in the financial reports as at 31 December 2016 and the development of EQC’s Canterbury and Kaikōura earthquakes claim costs since 30 June 2016.

EQC is providing this report to the public in the interests of transparency and has considered the public interest in deciding whether to withhold any of the information contained in the report. EQC has decided it is necessary to withhold the following information under the Official Information Act 1982:

• names of certain individuals under section 9(2)(a) to protect privacy;
• information under section 9(2)(h) to maintain legal privilege;
• information under section 9(2)(i) to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities; and
• information under section 9(2)(j) to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage, negotiations.

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