Diocesan Schools:  payment of insurance excess on claims made on the diocesan insurance policy.

Following extensive discussion between the Diocese and schools' representatives during most of 2004, and after both parties taking legal advice, a compromise position was arrived at in December on the subject of the payment of excess on insurance claims made by schools on the diocesan insurance policy.

From the commencement of 2005 the following was agreed as the policy and procedure to be followed:

1. The excess arising from a claim for damage being the consequence of the normal operation of the school (e.g. pupil activity) shall be a cost to the Board of Trustees.
2. The Diocese is responsible for the payment of the excess relating to approved insurance claims in relation to the replacement/repair of buildings destroyed or damaged from incidents outside the normal operation of the school.
3. A copy of all claims made by a school (on behalf of the Diocese as the "Insured") must be sent to the Catholic Schools Office at the time that it is lodged with Managers of CCUA.
4. The school Board of Trustees is responsible for the payment of the insurance excess relating to claims made on their own policy covering school contents.

Please ensure that this policy and the consequent procedures are carefully followed in making any claims on the diocesan insurance policy.