Scottish+Insurance

=Scottish Insurance Corporation Ltd=

Company Number: SC00721 Date of Incorporation: 12 January 1877 Contact Details: Pitheavlise, Perth, PH2 0NH Operating Details: Dissolved 7 October 2008 Other names (if known): the Scottish Accident Insurance Company Ltd (1877-1896), Scottish Accident Life and Fidelity Company (1896-1906), Scottish Accident Life and General Insurance Company (1906-1911) Function of Company*: Non-life Insurance (6603) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Perth, Edinburgh, London Area of Operation: Home agencies in Middlesbrough, Haddington, Coupar, Galashiels and Selkirk by 1877. Home branches in other major cities in the UK. Overseas agencies and branches in Dublin, Australia, Canada, France and The Netherlands by 1963.


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
Held By: [|Aviva Group Archives], Surrey House, Norwich GB 2070

Scope/type: The Aviva archive contains records relating to the running of the Scottish Insurance Corporation between 1877 and 2005. The collection includes board minute books, committee minute books, scrap books, staff photographs, board of trade returns, life policy registers, specimen policies, annual report and accounts and letter books.

Conditions governing access/use: Access is by appointment only, and at the discretion of the group archivist. Access to customer records less than 100 years old and company records less than 30 years old is closed except in very special circumstances. Access will only be granted on the understanding that the reader is engaged in bona fide historical research, and that the information extracted will not be used against the company or go beyond the agreed subject of research. For further information on specific searchroom rules please see []

Related records: The National Archives of Scotland hold the BT/2 file for this company, despite records still being held at Companies House. The NAS also hold some court files and client records of the corporation.

Company History
The company started business at the end of February 1877 and, according to its prospectus, was established to provide insurance against "death or bodily injury by accidents of all kinds on the road, rail, or river, while bathing, boating, or hunting, on the street or farm, in the house or office, whether in pursuit of pleasure or business". The company's first claim amounted to £7 10s and was paid on May 1 1877 to Mr Henry Whittington of Spennymoor. On June 27 1878, the company extended is policies to cover accidental death for "those passengers and Mariners travelling by sea". By 1885, the company was calling itself the"first Scottish Accident Company"and had paid 1,480 claims. These included £49 to a confectioner in Northampton who fell crossing a garden fence and injured his knee and £300 to the heirs of a butcher in Newcastle who fell into a well and drowned. In 1896, the company extended its business to include life and fidelity assurance. To reflect this change the company was renamed the Scottish Accident Life and Fidelity Insurance Company Ltd on May 27 1896. On July 17 1906, the company changed its name again to the Scottish Accident Life and General Insurance Company Ltd.

By 1906, the company was offering personal accident, illness, pensions, workmen's compensation, life, endowment, fidelity, motor accident, burglary and housebreaking insurance and, in 1907, it added a fire business. On March 29 1911, the company was renamed the Scottish Insurance Corporation Ltd, which became a subsidiary of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society in 1919.

The company continued to expand and, by 1934, had added plate glass insurance to its portfolio. By 1963, however, its principal activity was life insurance. In the same year, the company was acquired by the Yorkshire Insurance Company Ltd, which became part of the General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation Ltd in 1967.

Information taken from Aviva Group Archive webpages January 2011, used here with permission