Further, the Panel finds that to rely on the revised category D claim and its supporting evidence would be tantamount to allowing the individual claimant to file a new claim after the deadline for filing of claims.

The Panel reviewed each proposed amendment to ensure that it did not constitute a new claim filed after the appropriate deadlines.

Accordingly, the WBC Claim as amended amounts to US 950,715,662.

FIRST INSTALMENT CORRECTIONS

SECOND INSTALMENT CORRECTIONS

During that time, notifications were issued in respect of 28,911 claims, representing per cent of the total claims population, to elicit further information concerning the claimants' reasons for late filing.

Subsequent to the oral proceedings the Claimant amended the WBC Claim, which resulted in a reduction of the amount claimed by US 915,209.

Noting also that at the time of filing, the secretariat and the claimants were not aware that the consolidation would have consequences regarding the payment of the claim and that had separate claims been filed rather than a consolidated claim, the claimants would have been paid in full by mid 2003,

The WBC Claim as amended by the Claimant can be analyzed as follows

(ii) Insurance Claims and Compensation Section

22. Further, the Panel recommends approval of corrected recommended amounts for three claims from the second instalment.In December 1996, the Governing Council accepted the Panel s recommendation that pursuant to Decision 24, in the case of 42 confirmed matches of category A claims and category C1 quot departure claims from the second instalment, appropriate deductions be made from the compensation awarded to the category C claimants.

At its June 2005 session, the Governing Council established a final deadline of 30 September 2006 for submitting Governments with currently unlocated claimants to locate such claimants and to inform the secretariat of any claimant who was located so that the claimant could receive payment of his or her compensation award.

Claimants were instructed to appear in person in order to file a claim.

When calculating salary losses, claimants had submitted claims for differing time periods, ranging from months to several years.

68. A system of periodic claims audit should be introduced at the offices of the medical insurance companies to ensure that the claims submitted by them are correct.

Claimants whose spouses filed claims during the regular filing period

matching claims Two or more claims filed by a claimant during the regular filing period and under the late claims programme.

The Panel noted that in cases where the insurers verified the policies, claimants frequently claimed for amounts significantly in excess of the insured figures.

According to Jordan, this population increase resulted in environmental damage.

Having concluded that this consolidated claim, in effect consists of 82 claims, comprising 67 managing agent and 15 insurance company claims,

A similar exercise was conducted with respect to category C for the purpose of identifying duplicate claims during claims processing.

FOR DAMAGES UP TO USD 100,000 (CATEGORY C CLAIMS)

During the course of the Panel's review, two claims with a total claimed amount of USD 162,456.74 were withdrawn, leaving a remaining total claimed amount of USD 866,037,400.07.

The due date for the response fell after processing of the fourth instalment claims was completed.

For example, in UNCC claim No. 3012210 the claimant, who was 22 years old at the time of the invasion, asserted tangible property and profit losses totalling USD 5.6 million for his auto repair shop in Kuwait.

The partnership agreement referenced in the court documents is signed by the Kuwaiti claimant's husband and specifically refers to the business that the Kuwaiti claimant claimed for in her claim.

The study was based on documents prepared during Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait which recorded the numbers of refugees who entered Iran between 2 August 1990 and 2 March 1991, the types of treatment and services provided to them, and the costs involved.

In its First Report, the Panel determined that claimants who filed claims during the regular filing period in the same claim category had a full and effective opportunity to file claims with the Commission at that time.

In one claim, a husband who filed a category A claim during the regular filing period explained that he was unable to file a category C claim at the same time because no claim forms were available.

Amendment of claims Some Claimants proposed amendments to some of their claims in the fifth F4 instalment, which they stated were based on the results of monitoring and assessment activities.

However, 14 of these claimants filed duplicative claims in the bedoun programme, reducing the number of claims filed by such claimants to 29,051.

However, 11 of these claimants filed duplicative claims in the bedoun programme, reducing the number of claims filed by such claimants to 387.

However, 10 of these claimants filed duplicative claims in the bedoun programme, reducing the number of claims filed by such claimants to 1,436.

First claim unit Medical treatment and public health facilities for refugees Iran seeks compensation in the amount of USD 5,639,273 for losses suffered as a result of the influx of refugees into its territory between 2 August 1990 and 2 March 1991.

The monitoring and assessment claims of Iran that were awarded funding in the first F4 instalment and are relevant to claim No. 5000286 are claim Nos. 5000343, 5000344, 5000347, 5000383, 5000420, 5000425, 5000427 and 5000428.

In the third instalment, there were 3,266 ineligible claims that were reported on account of matching claims in the regular filing period.

The inability to obtain a claim form is a satisfactory explanation for failure to file a claim.

Where such amendments were received after the expiry of the deadline for the receipt of unsolicited information, the Panel accepted them only if they decreased the claimed amounts.

One thousand one hundred and forty five claims in the fourth instalment of category C claims are not recommended for payment.

Claims received

Iraq further objects to Saudi Arabia's use of oil contamination levels as a means for quantifying the extent of damage, pointing out that exposure is not considered sufficient to demonstrate injury .

In the first set of competing claims, a Palestinian claimant and a Kuwaiti claimant filed separate claims in categories D and C respectively for the losses of the same car repair business in Kuwait.

The amount claimed column shows the compensation sought by the Claimants (with amendments, where applicable) expressed in United States dollars (USD) and corrected, where necessary, for computational errors.

With respect to the D1 departure claims, the Panel noted that the data indicated that claimants in this instalment claimed for this loss type more frequently than claimants in the regular claims programme and had higher average and median claimed amounts and higher average and median recommended awards.

However, as determined by the Panel in its Third Report, the failure to file a claim during the regular filing period on account of a claimant's belief that the programme would not be successful is not a satisfactory reason for late filing.