IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/3528
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: MUNICIPAL MUTUAL ASSURANCE LIMITED
Date(s): 1900-1990
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 11.05 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Municipal Mutual Assurance Ltd | insurance provider
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The company was founded in 1903 at a meeting in Shoreditch Town Hall attended by representatives of 13 local authorities: the Metropolitan Boroughs of Battersea, Deptford, Fulham and Shoreditch; the Boards of Guardians of Camberwell, Fulham, Poplar, Shoreditch, Stepney, and Whitechapel; East Ham District Council, Romford Urban District Council and the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum District.
The company was part of an attempt to save municipal authorities, and therefore ratepayers, money by mutual assurance rather than paying inflated premiums to private insurance companies. It kept the money in the public domain. The company expanded with a network of branches being formed: by 1946 over 1250 local authorities had policies with the company. In the early 1990s the company became part of the Zurich Insurance Group.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Municipal Mutual Assurance Ltd, 1900-1990, including articles of association, policy registers, claims registers, files on important case law litigation (e.g. Municipal Mutual V Royal Insurance Co. Ltd. 1911), reinsurance files, annual reports, photographs and press-cuttings.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Register of Directors: ACC/3528/01; Minute Books: ACC/3528/02; Ledgers: ACC/3528/03; Cash Books: ACC/3528/04; Policy Registers: ACC/3528/05; Fire Claims: ACC/3528/06; Claims Volume: ACC/3528/07; Insurance Policies: ACC/3528/08; Deeds Registers: ACC/3528/09; Box Files: ACC/3528/10; Deed Boxes: ACC/3528/10; Miscellaneous: ACC/3528/11; Staff Records: ACC/3528/12; General Administration: ACC/3528/13; Miscellaneous Publications etc: ACC/3528/14.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in 1995.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) holds the records of a number of insurance companies including Law Union and Rock Insurance Company (Ac.68.090), Nation Life and General Insurance Company (ACC/2560) and Vehicle and General Insurance Company (ACC/2670). LMA also has the records of the 6 founder member Board of Guardians (see above) and the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum District.
Publication note:
A detailed history of the company is "The First Fifty Years" (ACC/3528/14/034) and a later one "Covering Seventy Five Years" (ACC/3528/10/187).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009