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.

part I|2 pages

Henry Moir, ‘Mortality Tables’ (1909)

chapter 1|10 pages

Henry Moir, ‘Mortality Tables’ (1909)

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 VI|3 pages

Medical Selection of Lives

part X|1 pages

‘Death Busy among the Bachelors’, Insurance Monitor (1867)

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 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 XXV|2 pages

Incontestability and Indisputability

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