Title: International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims

Source/Sponsoring Agency: International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims

URL: http://www.icheic.org/

Date Checked: 12/7/2005      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 12/7/2005

Topics: Human Rights Law; Insurance Law

Other keywords: Holocaust claims

Contents: The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) was established in 1998 following negotiations among European insurance companies and U.S. insurance regulators, along with representatives of international Jewish and survivor organizations and the State of Israel. The resulting Memorandum of Understanding, signed on August 25, 1998, by several European insurance companies, created ICHEIC. ICHEIC was the first organization ever to offer Holocaust survivors and their heirs an avenue to pursue a claim against an insurance company at no cost. The Commission was created as a means of addressing the gaps and shortfalls of postwar compensation programs of the 1950s and 1960s and was intended to provide an opportunity for thousands of Holocaust survivors and their heirs to submit claims for the first time. The site's "Document Center" offers visitors statistical and financial reports; ICHEIC agreements, claims packet materials, and documents; outreach materials; and research and appeals reports. ICHEIC research efforts include the most extensive project ever conducted to investigate and record information on insurance policies from Holocaust-era archives from around the world. These materials cover potential policyholders and three reports detailing the Commission's archival research efforts.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler