Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Mr. Kevin Thompson:

That is the point. When we refer to claims costs, they include the claims that occur at the moment, but it could take up to five years for the book of claims to unwind. Sometimes we price for now. Let us suppose there are 100 claims this year. We know that will probably only settle 20 of them. We will probably settle another 20 in year two, a further 20 in year three and so forth. Given the retrospective changes since 2014 that Mr. Horan has adverted to, along with the discount rate and the implications of the recoverable benefits, in the case of all the claims that have been notified and which are still not settled we have to go back and add an additional cost for these developments. These are claims costs but they are claims costs that we have to price for now.

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