HIH Insurance

Corporate failure of HIH Insurance
	HIH Insurance corporate logo
Inquiries	Royal Commission into HIH Insurance
Convicted	Ray Williams; Rodney Adler; Brad Cooper;

HIH Insurance Ltd
Formerly	CE Heath International Holdings Limited (1988–1996); HIH Winterthur International Holdings Limited (1996–1998);
Company type	Public
Traded as	ASX: HIH; ASX: HNZ;
Industry	Health insurance
Founded	6 April 1988 in Canberra, ACT, Australia
Defunct	15 March 2001
Fate	Provisional liquidation
Headquarters	Canberra, Australia
Area served	Australia
Website	HIH Insurance at the Wayback Machine (archived 2001-02-02)

HIH Insurance was Australia's second-largest insurance company before it was placed into provisional liquidation on 15 March 2001. The demise of HIH is considered to be the largest corporate collapse in Australia's history, with liquidators estimating that HIH's losses totalled up to AUD $5.3 billion. Investigations into the cause of the collapse have led to conviction and imprisonment of a handful of members of HIH management on various charges relating to fraud.

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