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Insurance
1995 Michael Naylor, insurance broker, dies at 59

1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance

1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million

1978 John D MacArthur, U.S. insurance billionaire, dies at 80

1973 Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents

1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive

1959 Charles Lotsy, Dutch insurance director/chief d'equipe, dies at 66

1953 1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois

1940 George Paul, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group

1938 U.S. Federal Crop Insurance program authorized

1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance

1936 Michael Naylor, insurance broker

1934 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective

1933 U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC, created

1932 1st U.S. state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)

1929 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)

1928 Ken Scowcroft, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire

1928 MG Falcon, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group

1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England

1923 Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire

1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks

1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect

1911 1st U.S. group insurance policy written, Passaic, New Jersey

1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law

1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms

1898 North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company forms

1898 1st auto insurance policy in U.S. issued, by Travelers Insurance Co

1893 Karel Lotsy, Dutch insurance director and Olympic-chief d'equipe

1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut

1876 Frank L Gillespie, Arkansas, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company

1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms

1867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. issues 1st policy

1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered, 1st accident insurer

1843 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens

1835 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)

1810 1st U.S. fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia

1810 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)

1799 1st U.S. law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts

1792 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. (Phila)

1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)

1761 1st life insurance policy in U.S., issued in Philadelphia

1759 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia

1752 1st U.S. fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)

1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent

1583 Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was 383 pounds



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