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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 Value Of Life Insurance Agents To The Company
If the American people have enjoyed a greater measure of security through life insurance than have the people of other countries, it is largely because of the agency system of operation, which had its origin and development in this country. The agent is the key figure in the American life insurance business. It is through [...]
The Work That Was Once Involved In Processing Insurance Applications
The applications for policies came in by thousands each week and were referred, according to their type, to either the industrial department, to the ordinary, to the group, or to the personal accident and health department. The Metropolitan was really four companies in one, since all the appropriate charges were allocated to the respective departments. [...]
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 [...]