101.   Van Diepen said a panel of economics experts was trying to establish a way of processing compensation claims by companies threatened with bankruptcy by the evacuation.

102.   Government officials toured the region Sunday, meeting with homeowners and businessmen to total up the damage and help prepare compensation claims.

103.   However, compensation claims will only be valid for the past six years.

104.   It also calls on the Japanese government to introduce special legislation to allow individual compensation claims to be settled through Japanese courts.

105.   As a result the MoD faces compensation claims from thousands of women forced out of military careers because they were pregnant.

106.   But Brown said he was concerned about the possibility of compensation claims if the government acted on contract tenders already underway.

107.   Brown said there could be a compensation claim if the companies were excluded at this stage.

108.   But what won Fagan widespread international attention was a series of compensation claims he filed against Swiss banks on behalf of several thousand survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.

109.   Compensation claims are expected to run into billions of pounds.

110.   They are modelled on successful compensation claims by Holocaust survivors.