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As of 30 September 2011, legal defence costs of approximately $759m have been incurred in connection with Seroquel-related product liability claims. As previously disclosed, AstraZeneca settled its claims against several of its insurers for a substantial part of those legal defence costs.

As previously disclosed, disputes continue with other insurers about the availability of coverage under other insurance policies for legal defence costs and settlements. These policies have aggregate coverage limits of $300m. On 5 September 2011 AstraZeneca Insurance Company Limited commenced formal legal proceedings in the High Court in London against certain of these insurers for recovery of money which AstraZeneca believes is due under certain of these policies which have aggregate coverage limits of $200m.

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