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 30 June 2016 and the development of EQC’s Canterbury earthquakes claim costs since 31 December 2015.

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)(ba)(i) to protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar information, and it is in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied; and
• information under section 9(2)(j) to enable negotiations.

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