UIA (Insurance)

Infobox_Co-operative
company_name = UIA (Insurance) Limited
company_
company_type = Industrial and Provident Society
company_slogan = Insurance with principles
foundation = 1867
location = Kings Court, London Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2TP
key_people = Carolyn Baker BA ALA, Chairman
Ian Templeton FCII FRSA, Managing Director
revenue = 22, 969 thousand GBP [ [http://www.uia.co.uk/UIA-OL1.0/PDF/UIA%20-%20AGM2008.pdf Summary Report and Accounts 2007] "Summary Financial Statements, Consolidated Revenue Account" (p.11) UIA (Insurance), 12 March 2008]
industry = Financial Services
products = General Insurance
homepage = [http://www.uia.co.uk/ www.uia.co.uk]

UIA (Insurance) Limited is a mutual insurance company in the United Kingdom, providing general insurance products to trade union members. It is a member of the Association of British Insurers, the Financial Ombudsman Service and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. [Registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965, No. 2898R. Entered in the Register under No. 110863] UIA (Insurance Services) Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary. [Registered in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985, No. 2998952. Entered in the Register under No. 307925]

UNISON — the Public Service Union, Unite — the Union, the Communication Workers' Union (CWU), National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW), Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU), National Association of Probation Officers (NAPO), Fire Brigades Union (FBU), National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and charity, the Ramblers' Association, are Introducer Appointed Representatives of UIA.

History

1890 saw the registration, under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1876, of the Poor Law and Local Government Officers' Mutual Guarantee Association, the predecessor to NALGO. The organisation took root when the National Association of Local Government Officers introduced a Benevolent and Orphans fund for members and then a provident society in 1914 to provide sickness benefits and life assurance. In 1930 NALGO merged with the National Poor Law Officers' Association. The latter had already launched the Local Government Mutual Insurance Association (known as "Logomia") in 1890. By 1930 Logomia had a share capital of c. £100,000 with all shares held by members. The name of the union changed to National and Local Government Officers' Association in 1952 and in 1969 Logomia became the NALGO Insurance Association Ltd. In 1993 NALGO merged with the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE), founded in 1908 as the National Union of Corporation Workers, and the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE), established in 1946 by the merger of the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union and the Hospital and Welfare Services Union, to form UNISON. Although all three predecessor unions had their own insurance providers, NIA won the right to provide insurance to all members of the newly formed union and was subsequently renamed UIA (Insurance) Ltd.

References

ee also

*Britannia Building Society

External links

* [http://www.uia.co.uk/ UIA (Insurance)]