Municipal Mutual Insurance

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Municipal Mutual Insurance (MMI) is an insurance company registered in the United Kingdom. It was established by local authorities, and was formally incorporated on 13 March 1903.[1]

Over the following decades it became responsible for insuring most public sector bodies, including councils, police and fire authorities.[2] Between 1990 and 1992, the company suffered substantial losses, and its assets reduced to below the minimum level for solvency.[1] In 1993 it was bought by Zurich Insurance,[1] although MMI itself continues to pay all its outstanding liabilities.[3]

Effort to restrict child sex abuse inquiry

An article in the Independent newspaper (Saturday 6 April 1996) states "at the behest of Clwyd County Council's insurers, Municipal Mutual, who were hostile to the inquiry from the start, fearing it might provoke a flood of compensation claims. "We do not see why it is necessary to have such a wide-ranging inquiry," says one letter from the insurers quoted in the report. "Every inquiry is a dress rehearsal for claimants and a further incentive to the bandwagon syndrome," says another." [4]

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