Register of public liability insurers
IICSA · Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse · Issued 25 April 2018 · Addressed to: Association of British Insurers
Government responseNo response yet
DeliveryNo statement from Association of British Insurers found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, G
The Chair and Panel recommend that the Association of British Insurers (ABI) considers whether a register of public liability insurers could be introduced to assist claimants in child sexual abuse cases in locating the insurers relevant to their claim, and how it would operate. The Chair and Panel recommend that the ABI sets out its consideration of the issue and the conclusions it has reached in a written update within 12 months of the publication of this report.
IICSA, Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse · 25 Apr 2018 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
The Inquiry asked the Association of British Insurers to consider a public liability register. In an update archived in October 2022, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse reported that the association formally responded in April 2019, raising questions about the merits of such a register and the challenges of its introduction (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022). It noted that this response was referred to in its Accountability and Reparations Investigation report and at an investigation hearing in November 2019 (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 19 Oct 2026.
Government response
●No formal government response recorded
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Delivery
No statement on delivery from Association of British Insurers has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.
What other bodies have found
●Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse · 6 Oct 2022
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) formally responded to this recommendation in April 2019, raising a number of questions about the merits of such a register and the challenges that may be faced by its introduction. The response from ABI was referred to in the Accountability and Reparations Investigation report and at the investigation hearing on 26 November 2019.
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