The Civil Liability (Information Requirements) and Risk Transformation (Amendment) Regulations 2020
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2020 No. 344
Financial Services And Markets
The Civil Liability (Information Requirements) and Risk Transformation (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made 23th March 2020
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 11 and 12(4) of the Civil Liability Act 20181and sections 284A and 428 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 20002.
In accordance with section 11 of the Civil Liability Act 2018 and section 429(2) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, a draft of these Regulations was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
PART 1
General provision
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Liability (Information Requirements) and Risk Transformation (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
(2) Part 1 and Part 3 come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.
(3) Part 2 comes into force on 1st April 2020.
PART 2
Information requirements relating to section 11 of the Civil Liability Act 2018
Interpretation
2. In this Part—
“the Act” means the Civil Liability Act 2018;
“private motor insurance policy” means a relevant third party personal injury policy of insurance which is a policy of insurance against losses arising from the death of, or bodily injury to, any person, or damage to property that is supplied to, or acquired by, the user of a privately owned motor vehicle which—
(a) restricts the insurance of the person insured by the policy to use of the vehicle for specified purposes (in particular, social, domestic and pleasure purposes) of a non-commercial character; or
(b) which excludes—
(i) use of the vehicle for hire or reward;
(ii) business or commercial use of the vehicle; or
(iii) use of the vehicle for specified purposes of a business or commercial character.
Insurers to whom Part 2 of these Regulations applies
3.—(1) Part 2 of these Regulations applies to relevant insurers.
(2) A “relevant insurer” is an insurer who—
(a)
(a) has effected or carried out contracts of insurance in England and Wales for a period including at least one report year; and
(b)
(b) has issued 100,000 or more private motor insurance policies where the period of cover for those policies began in a single report year.
(3) A relevant insurer must provide the information in regulations 4 to 6 to the FCA relating to—
(a)
(a) the report period; or
(b)
(b) if the relevant insurer is not authorised to effect or carry out contracts of insurance under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 for every year of the report period, then each report year in the report period for which the relevant insurer is so authorised.
(4) An insurer who becomes a relevant insurer must notify the FCA without delay that it is within scope of these Regulations.
(5) A relevant insurer who is unable to provide the information in regulations 4 to 6 for one or more report years must give written reasons to the FCA no later than 1st October 2023, explaining why it could not provide that information for the report year concerned.
Audited information to be provided to the FCA
4.—(1) For each report year, the information provided to the FCA must include audited figures for—
(a)
(a) the total gross amount, including reinsurance recoveries and legal costs, of the ultimate value of claims paid for all claims which have been finally settled in that report year by a relevant insurer under its private motor insurance policies in respect of personal injuries sustained by third parties, where the amount of damages for the injury is governed by the law of England and Wales;
(b)
(b) the mean of the amounts in sub-paragraph (a) per policy paid by a relevant insurer during the report year under those policies in respect of injuries falling within sub-paragraph (a);
(c)
(c) separate totals for the amounts in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) for claims where the amount of the award paid by a relevant insurer under each policy was—
(i) £100,000 or less;
(ii) over £100,000;
(d)
(d) the total gross value of the premium earned by the relevant insurer for private motor insurance policies where the period of cover began in the report year; and
(e)
(e) the mean of the gross value of the premium per policy earned by the relevant insurer in respect of the policies in sub-paragraph (d).
(2) Where a relevant insurer provides any of the information in paragraph (1), it must be accompanied by—
(a)
(a) a statement from a qualified auditor verifying that the information has been audited; and
(b)
(b) details of the qualified auditor who has audited the information for each report year to which the information under paragraph (1) relates.
Counterfactual information to be provided to the FCA
5.—(1) For each report year, the information provided to the FCA must include, as if the Act had not been enacted—
(a)
(a) the total gross amount, including reinsurance recoveries and legal costs, of the ultimate value of claims that the relevant insurer might reasonably have been expected to pay for all claims which have been finally settled in that report year under its private motor insurance policies in respect of personal injuries...
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