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Chile: Civil commotion or something else?

The protests that have taken place in Chile, sparked by the rise of subway fares in the capital Santiago, have been well documented in the press. Those protests and riots have been often violent with regrettable loss of human life … Continue reading

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Chile is adjusting: (re) insurers, claims and loss adjusters

It is well known that a legal side effect of the 2010 earthquake was the modification of the Insurance Act. It has been more than a year since the new regulation came into practice, but what has it happened since? … Continue reading

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Chile shakes again: A legal perspective on main effects for insurers

Two natural catastrophe events have shaken Chile recently. This is the take away, from our legal perspective:

On March 27th, thunderstorms brought the equivalent of 7 years of rain to Chile’s Atacama desert region and caused deadly flooding and mudslides. Antofagasta, where the annual average precipitation is 0.13 inches, saw 0.9 inches of rain in just 12 hours.
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