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AAMI: Leading insurer. Pacesetter in customer benefits and service.

AAMI is a leading car, home, compulsory third party (CTP) and small business insurer. We deal directly with our customers and we use innovative business and marketing strategies to provide them with high quality products and excellent customer service. You've already found we're easy to contact.

Insurance benefits such as no fault, no penalty; lifetime repair guarantee; lifetime rating one/maximum no claim bonus; valet service; progressive no claim discount on home insurance and the first general insurance customer charter were all introduced by AAMI.

Established in 1970, AAMI today has more than 2.5 million policyholders and millions of incoming telephone calls annually.

history

Incorporated in Victoria in September 1969, AAMI commenced business on 1 January 1970 as a motor vehicle insurer, offering a major independent alternative to government-owned and motor club-owned insurers. However, it was back in 1934, on 7 January, that the first policy was granted, but not by AAMI as it is known today. The risk was underwritten by a company called Club Motor Insurance Agency (Club Motor).

Club Motor was established in 1933 as a highly specialised company to provide motor vehicle insurance for members of the RACV in Victoria, the RACQ in Queensland and the RACT in Tasmania. The Club Motor arrangement continued until 31 December 1969, when the RACV decided to become an insurer in its own right. The RACQ quickly followed suit so that only the RACT remained in the fold. But what was the end of a long liaison, was the beginning for AAMI as it is known today. After the split, and to avoid customer confusion, Club Motor's consortium of shareholders, which read like the who's who of the insurance industry, was no longer able to use the Club Motor name, so they decided on the name Australian Associated Motor Insurers Limited, known as AAMI.

In 1978, AAMI branched out into South Australia and then into New South Wales in 1983. The RACT broke away from AAMI in 1985. However AAMI was able to retain 80% of that business. In 1989 came AAMI's decision to diversify. After nearly 20 years of operating solely in car insurance, AAMI launched into the home insurance market. This move was the result of a detailed analysis of the benefits of applying AAMI's strengths, experience and infrastructure to other endeavours without diluting its motoring expertise. The year 1989 also saw the deregulation of the CTP market in New South Wales, with AAMI being granted a licence to operate. In 1993, AAMI entered the Queensland CTP market.

AAMI's business has continued to grow and develop so that, today, home insurance and CTP insurance are major components, making increasingly important contributions to the company's