{"id":43027,"date":"2017-02-06T16:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T09:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/?p=43027"},"modified":"2017-02-06T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T06:58:48","slug":"emaar-agrees-to-dh1-22-billion-insurance-claim-on-address-downtown-hotel-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/emaar-agrees-to-dh1-22-billion-insurance-claim-on-address-downtown-hotel-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Emaar agrees to Dh1.22 billion insurance claim on Address Downtown hotel fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nDubai developer Emaar Properties has confirmed that it has agreed a billion dirham insurance claim with Orient Insurance over the dramatic fire at its Address Downtown hotel on New Year&#8217;s Eve 2015.In a statement to the Dubai bourse this morning Emaar confirmed that it had agreed a Dh1.22 billion insurance claim with Orient Insurance for the fire at the 63-storey tower which police later said was caused by an electrical short circuit on a spotlight.The vast insurance claim is thought to be the largest ever agreed in the GCC and Middle East.Dubai&#8217;s largest listed developer said that the insurance claim would mean that it could reverse a Dh301 million provision made in its 2015 accounts.Emaar said that this would mean that the cash would be recorded as income in its fourth quarter 2016 results.Last year Emaar&#8217;s fourth quarter results missed analysts&#8217; expectations due to the Dh301 million write down.lbarnard@thenational.aeFollow The National&#8217;s Business section on Twitter&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : thenational.ae&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/business\/property\/emaar-agrees-to-dh122-billion-insurance-claim-on-address-downtown-hotel-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Emaar agrees to Dh1.22 billion insurance claim on Address Downtown hotel fire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Dubai developer Emaar Properties has confirmed that it has agreed a billion dirham insurance claim&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-bbZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43083,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/emaar-to-receive-dh1-22-billion-insurance-claim-on-address-downtown-hotel-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":43027,"position":0},"title":"Emaar to receive Dh1.22 billion insurance claim on Address Downtown hotel fire","date":"February 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Dubai developer Emaar Properties has agreed a billion dirham insurance claim with Orient Insurance over the dramatic fire at its Address Downtown hotel on New Year's Eve 2015. 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