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April 16, 2018
Daisuke Iwase, President
LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY(Securities Code: 7157, TSE Mothers)

FY2017 4Q: INSURANCE PAYMENTS REPORT
1,581 payments for 4Q of FY2017
TOKYO, April 16, 2018 - LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY (TSE Mothers 7157, President
Daisuke Iwase, URL: http://ir.lifenet-seimei.co.jp/en/) announces the report on the number of
insurance payments for the fourth quarter fiscal 2017, ended March 31, 2018.
The number of insurance payments made in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 resulted in 1,581
cases, 20 of which were insurance claims and the remaining 1,561 benefit claims. There were68 incidents which were assessed to be inapplicable during the same quarter. As a result, thenumber of insurance payments made in fiscal 2017 (April 2017 through March 2018) resulted in
6,240 cases, 75 of which were insurance claims and 6,165 benefits, and there were 238
incidents which were assessed to be inapplicable during the same period.
Lifenet believes the most important responsibility for an insurance company is to make claim
payments accurately and without delay, and we thrive to continue to accomplish this. Lifenet
makes every effort to ensure payment of insurance claims and benefits are made to thedesignated account within 5 business days*1 of receiving all necessary documents. In fiscal
2017, the average insurance payment was made in 2.56 business days. *1

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Number of insurance payments and those which assessed inapplicable*2
FY2017 (April 2017 – March 2018)
Insurance
payments

Inapplicablecases

6,240

238-Death benefit

704

Invalid care benefit

5Waiver of premium

Breachofdisclosure
duty

Criminalintent

Exemption
fromresponsibility

Requestnotcoveredby policy-

7444156-

-

-

-

4-

--

-

-

-

-

-

0-

--

--

-

-

Hospitalization benefit

2,11135-

-

23-

30

Surgery benefit

671

9-

-

-

1-

8

Waiver of premium

3-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Hospitalization benefit

1,18173-

-

39-

-

34

Hospitalization benefit
for women

382

19-

-

9-

-

10

Surgery benefit

763

46-

-

18-

-

28

40

5-

-

-

-

-

581-

---

-

1

Waiver of premium1-------

In-patient care benefit

447

11-

-

2-

-

9Out-patient benefit

335

7-

-

1-

-

6

Cancer treatment
benefit
Advanced medicalcare benefit

28-------

0-------

Waiver of premium

0-

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-

Disability benefit*3

153

13-

---

-

13

Disability benefit*3

4214-

-

3-

-

11

Invalid care benefit

-

1-

---

-

1

Lump-sum payment
upon cancer diagnosis
Lump-sum payment
upon Intraepithelial
neoplasm diagnosis----------------

Income support benefit------------------------Total

Term life*4

Whole-life
medical*4

Whole-life
medical(2014) *4

Term-medical
care*4Long-term
disability*4Long-term
disability(2016) *4

CancerCancer treatment
benefit
Advanced medicalcare benefit

Treatment supportbenefit
Advanced medicalcare benefit for cancer
treatment

Fraud

Illegalacquisition*1

Number of days is business day, with the day Lifenet receives all necessary documents counted as the first day. Does not include the number ofdays required to obtain lacking documents. Cases which required fact confirmation before insurance payments were made are not included
when calculating the average number of days required for payment.
*2 The number of payments made may differ from the number of policies as there may be multiple claims made from one policy.
*3 The number of benefit payments for long-term disability is a total of all monthly individual claim applications during the specified period, and may differ
from the number of payments and/or number of claimants. During the fiscal 2017, the number of claimants who were paid disability benefits was 49.
*4 Term life insurance: Kazoku and au Term Insurance, Whole-life medical insurance: Jibun, Whole-life medical insurance (2014): New Jibun, New Jibun forWomen, au Medical Insurance and au Medical Insurance for Women, Term-medical care insurance: Jibun Plus, Long-term disability insurance: HatarakuHito, Long-term disability insurance (2016): Hataraku-Hito 2 and au Long-term Disability Insurance, Cancer Insurance: Double Yell

Quarterly trend of the number of insurance payments

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RELEASEFY2017FY2016FY2015FY2014FY2013

FY2012

Insurance payments

Inapplicable cases

4Q(Jan.-Mar. 2018)

1,581683Q(Oct.-Dec. 2017)

1,585452Q(Jul.-Sep. 2017)

1,60964

1Q(Apr.-Jun. 2017)

1,46561

4Q(Jan.-Mar. 2017)

1,482

443Q

(Oct.-Dec. 2016)

1,45369

2Q(Jul.-Sep. 2016)

1,48365

1Q(Apr.-Jun. 2016)

1,406

434Q

(Jan.-Mar. 2016)

1,294543Q(Oct.-Dec. 2015)

1,28633

2Q(Jul.-Sep. 2015)

1,273231Q(Apr.-Jun. 2015)

1,189584Q(Jan.-Mar. 2015)

1,166

393Q

(Oct.-Dec. 2014)

1,224

382Q

(Jul.-Sep. 2014)

1,20373

1Q(Apr.-Jun. 2014)

1,240

564Q

(Jan.-Mar. 2014)

1,284

343Q

(Oct.-Dec. 2013)

1,348

532Q

(Jul.-Sep. 2013)

1,079

30

1Q

(Apr.-Jun. 2013)

911

414Q

(Jan.-Mar. 2013)

661

263Q

(Oct.-Dec. 2012)

678

432Q

(Jul.-Sep. 2012)

537

81Q

(Apr.-Jun. 2012)

480

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About LIFENET URL： http://ir.lifenet-seimei.co.jp/en/
Returning to the original purpose of life insurance - mutual support - LIFENET INSURANCE
was founded with the goal of offering simple, convenient and competitively priced products andservices based on the highest levels of business integrity. We sell these products and services
directly to customers over the Internet. By using the Internet, we are able to offer highly costcompetitive products and accept applications from customers at any given time.
Contact:
Investor Relations, Corporate Planning DepartmentTel:+81-3-5216-7900
e-mail: ir@lifenet-seimei.co.jp
Disclaimer: This is a summarized translation/version of the original Japanese document, prepared and provided
solely for readers' convenience. In case of any discrepancy or dispute, the Japanese document prevails.

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