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How the Insurance Business Works
In some lines of insurance, one additional type of service is important: engineering and loss prevention. The quality of engineering service varies from company to company.
A well qualified corps of inspectors may weigh the balance in favor of a given company for a boiler and machinery line. And an imaginative engineering department may be the [...]
The Welfare Activities Of Metropolitan In Canada
The welfare activities of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company had already borne encouraging dividends in terms of human lives saved. The Nursing Service founded in 1910 had taken on new branches in cities all over Canada, as the result of affiliations with the French Sisters of Hope, with the Victorian Order of Nurses, and with [...]
Implied Powers Of Insurance Companies
If a rathskeller near a college campus is known as a “hangout” for students, the insurance company would hardly be within its rights in trying to avoid a claim for a fire loss on the grounds that the proprietor did not reveal that students were his principal customers.
It may be that the fact that [...]