ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Henry Moir, ‘Mortality Tables’ (1909)
part II|2 pages
British Combined Experience Tables
part III|3 pages
American Mortality Tables
part IV|2 pages
John Adams Higham, On the Value of Selection Amongst Assured Lives, and its Effect Upon the Adjustment of a Scale of Premiums, as Between Persons Assuring at Different Ages (1850)
part V|3 pages
Premium Rates
part VI|3 pages
Medical Selection of Lives
part VII|2 pages
Application Forms
part VIII|2 pages
Consumption
part IX|2 pages
Gender
part X|1 pages
‘Death Busy among the Bachelors’, Insurance Monitor (1867)
part XI|2 pages
Travel and Climate
part XII|2 pages
‘Life Insurance in California’, Insurance Monitor (1869)
part XIII|2 pages
Harold Edward William Lutt, ‘On Extra Premiums’, Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (1907), Excerpt
part XIV|3 pages
War Risks
part XV|3 pages
The American Civil War
part XVI|2 pages
‘Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, N. J. – Circular to Southern Agents in Relation to Their Operations’, Insurance Gazette (1861)
part XVII|3 pages
B. Rush, ‘To William Bard, Esq., President of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company’, New York Evangelist (1830)
part XVIII|2 pages
John Broomhall, ‘Temperance and Life Assurance’ (1877)
part XIV|3 pages
Alcohol Consumption
part XX|2 pages
The Policy
part XXI|3 pages
Insurable Interest
part XXII|2 pages
Insurance and Gambling
part XXIII|2 pages
Fraud
part XXIV|2 pages
Suicide
part XXV|2 pages
Incontestability and Indisputability
part XXVI|2 pages
Faking Death
part XXVII|2 pages
Murder