Historical insurance statistics from 19th-century America provide a detailed snapshot of how fire, marine, tornado, and ocean risks were insured across US states in 1880–89. This edition compiles company data, premiums, losses, and ratios, offering a window into the era’s underwriting and market conditions without modern jargon or speculation.
The pages present classifications by risk type and company structure, showing how much risk companies wrote, how premiums were collected, and how losses compared to premiums. Readers will see state-by-state breakdowns and year-by-year totals that illuminate the scale and variety of insurance business in the period.
Ideal for researchers and history readers seeking concrete numbers from the era, and for anyone interested in the evolution of the US insurance market.
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Anbieter: Forgotten Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book analyzes insurance business statistics from 1880 to 1889 in four US states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, and Indiana. It contains data on fire, ocean marine, inland navigation and transportation, and tornado insurance. The author focuses on three classes of insurance companies, with class 1 representing companies with a joint stock capital and doing either a fire, a fire marine, an ocean marine, an inland navigation and transportation, or a tornado business. Classes 2, 3, and 4 include companies with a guaranty capital, companies doing business on the mutual plan and insuring only manufacturing property, and companies doing business on the mutual plan and insuring all kinds of property, respectively. The statistics given are risks written and renewed, premiums and assessments received in cash, and losses paid in cash. The book serves as a valuable resource for understanding the insurance industry during a key decade in American history. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781333112479_0
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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LW-9781333112479
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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LW-9781333112479
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