1st Edition

Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800–1914 Volume 2

By Timothy Alborn, Sharon Ann Murphy Copyright 2013
    474 Pages
    by Routledge

    474 Pages
    by Routledge

    By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.

    ‘Insurance as a Profession’, Bankers’ Magazine (1893); ‘Insurance as a Profession’, Bankers’ Magazine (1893); Archibald Hewat, ‘The Actuary in Scotland’, Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries (1907), Excerpt; Archibald Hewat, ‘The Actuary in Scotland’, Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries (1907), excerpt; Joel L. English, ‘Home Office Management’ (1912); Joel L. English, ‘Home Office Management’ (1912); Office Machinery; ‘Writing Machines, by a Caledonian Typist’, Caledonian Jottings (1893); Henry N. Kaufman, ‘Some Uses for the Hollerith Machines’, Transactions (1909); Palatial Halls; ‘A Lady Clerk on the New Offices’, Ibis Magazine (1879); F. A. McKeand, ‘The Palatial Halls of Insurance’, Norwich Union Magazine (1897); The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Its History, Its Present Position in the Insurance World, Its Home Office Building and Its Work Carried on Therein (1914), Excerpt; The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Its History, its Present Position in the Insurance World, its Home Office Building and its Work Carried on Therein (1914), excerpt; Advice to Agents; Eagle and Protector Life Assurance Company, Observations for the Use of the Agents (1847); ‘Advice to Insurance Agents’, Insurance Gazette ([ c . 1855]); Popular Perceptions; Robert Sulivan, ‘Insurance and Assurance’, New Monthly Magazine (1825); Robert Chambers, ‘The Life-Assurance Agents Appeal’, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art (1860); ‘The Dodges of Life Insurance Agents’, Sphinx (1869); E. C. Browne, Life Agencies: Thoughts and Suggestions Concerning their Economic and Efficient Arrangement (1878), Excerpt; E. C. Browne, Life Agencies: Thoughts and Suggestions Concerning their Economic and Efficient Arrangement (1878), Excerpt; ‘Bank Officials as Insurance Agents’, Bankers’ Magazine (1889); ‘Bank Officials as Insurance Agents’, Bankers’ Magazine (1889); Edward A. Woods, ‘Agency Management’ (1912), Excerpt; Edward A. Woods, ‘Agency Management’ (1912), Excerpt; British Portfolios; ‘The Profits of Joint-Stock Enterprise: Life Insurance’, Economist (1869); ‘Some Life Insurance Investments’, Bankers’ Magazine (1896); Lester William Zartman, ‘The Character of the Investments’ (1907); Lester William Zartman, ‘The Character of the Investments’ (1907); ‘Profits and Premiums of Life Insurance’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine (1846); ‘Profits and Premiums of Life Insurance’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine (1846); Annuities; ‘Annuities, Life Insurance, Tontines, etc., Number I’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine (1847); ‘Annuities, Life Insurance, Tontines, etc., Number II’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine (1847); ‘Deferred Dividend Policies’ (1869); ‘Deferred Dividend Policies’ (1869); Endowment Insurance; ‘Endowment Assurance’, Bankers’ Magazine (1896); ‘The Capabilities of Endowment Assurance and Annuities’, English Review (1913); Early Life Insurance Failures; ‘Life Insurance’, Hallowell Gazette (1826); ‘Life Assurance’, Monthly Review (1841), excerpt; Malcolm Ronald Laing-Meason, ‘Insurance and Assurance’, All the Year Round (1865); Malcolm Ronald Laing-Meason, ‘Insurance and Assurance’, All the Year Round (1865); The Albert Failure; ‘The Failure of the Albert Insurance Company’, Economist (1869); ‘An Insurer’s Grievance’, London Times (1869); Embezzlement; ‘The Absconding Secretary of the Trust Company’, Brother Jonathan (1843); ‘Life Insurance’, Galaxy Magazine (1877); State Laws in America; ‘No. 32 – An Act in Amendment of “An Act Relating to Insurance on Lives by Foreign Corporations”’ (1854); Moses L. Knapp, Lectures on the Science of Life Insurance (1853), excerpt; ‘The First American Life Underwriters’ Convention’, United States Insurance Gazette (1859), excerpt; ‘Proceedings of the Life Insurance Convention’, United States Insurance Gazette (1860), excerpt; ‘Valuation of Life Insurance Policies’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine (1860); ‘Valuation of Life Insurance Policies’, Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine (1860); Paul V. Virginia , Supreme Court of the United States, 75 US 168 (1869); Paul v. Virginia , Supreme Court of the United States, 75 US 168 (1869); British Calls for Reform; Charles Jellicoe, ‘The Life Assurance Controversy’, Assurance Magazine (1853); ‘Life Assurance’, Economist (1853); The Life Assurance Companies Act; ‘The European Assurance Case and the Necessity for Government Inspection’, Economist (1869); W. R. Malcolm and R. G. C. Hamilton, ‘Report to the Board of Trade upon the Accounts and Statements of Life Assurance Companies’, Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (1875); H. R. Harding, ‘British Life Assurance Companies and Colonial Legislation’, Post Magazine (1895), Excerpt; H. R. Harding, ‘British Life Assurance Companies and Colonial Legislation’, Post Magazine (1895), excerpt; The Armstrong Hearings; ‘Insurance Probers Seek these Reforms’, New York Times (1906), excerpt; Sydney Brooks, ‘“The Big Three,” 1905–1912’, North American Review (1912); William Brosmith, ‘State Laws’ (1912); William Brosmith, ‘State Laws’ (1912); Protecting Dependants; ‘The Widow and the Fatherless’, Catholic Telegraph (1840); Arthur Scratchley, ‘Life Assurance’, Daily News (1863); Thomas Bond Sprague, ‘On the Grant of Settlement Policies under the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1870 and 1882’, Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (1883)

    Biography

    Timothy Alborn, Sharon Ann Murphy