In the prologue to his classic account of the New Deal, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. suggests Felix Frankfurter and his colleagues were the source for the 1933 Banking Act ( along with the Securities Act of 1933 ) in the tradition of “ trust-busting liberalism .” In his later brief description of the 1933 Banking Act, however, Schlesinger does not mention Frankfurter and focuses on the role of the Pecora Investigation and opposition to deposit insurance, including from Roosevelt, in the debate over the legislation.

He fought against the tradition of seeing the Jews as merchants or business people, arguing that most modern financial innovations such as insurance had been invented by gentiles.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

In 2011, Aon was ranked as the largest insurance broker in the world based on revenue.

At issue was the practice of insurance companies ' payments to brokers ( known as contingent commissions ).

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

Though at first well received in political circles, it was eventually doomed by well-organized opposition from conservatives, the American Medical Association, and the health insurance industry.

While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.

In 2011 it was reported that only one captive insurance company was formed in the jurisdiction with many dozens choosing to leave on account of the hostile regulatory environment.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

Among the most important pieces of legislation was the National Insurance Act 1946, in which people in work paid a flat rate of national insurance.

With most of his money tied up in the Indians, Veeck was forced to sell the team to a syndicate headed by insurance magnate Ellis Ryan.

In 1906, he was appointed to the " Armstrong Insurance Commission " to investigate the insurance industry in New York as a special assistant to U. S. attorney general.

Vernon was nicknamed " Nub City " because its residents participated in a particularly gruesome form of insurance fraud in which they deliberately amputated a limb in order to collect the insurance money.

He was born in Mount Abu, British India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.

Hubble was born to an insurance executive, John Powell Hubble, and Virginia Lee James in Marshfield, Missouri, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1900.

However, because he was married, he decided to take a full-time job in insurance instead.

In the United States, the underwriting loss of property and casualty insurance companies was $ 142. 3 billion in the five years ending 2003.

Before insurance was established in the late 17th century, " friendly societies " existed in England, in which people donated amounts of money to a general sum that could be used for emergencies.

The first insurance company in the United States underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charles Town ( modern-day Charleston ), South Carolina, in 1732.

Osteopaths work in private practice, and the majority of private health insurance providers cover treatment performed by osteopaths.

The Jewish trader performed both financing ( credit ) and underwriting ( insurance ) functions.

LEPs are typically made up of actuaries and medical underwriters who utilize actuarial models based on published or proprietary mortality ( life ) tables and medical underwriting based on various debits / credits for various morbidity characteristics similar to the medical underwriting performed by life insurance company underwriters and reinsurance underwriters.

In his 1848 testimony before a parliamentary committee, Robert Minturn of Grinnell, Minturn & Co " stated that teetotalism not only was encouraged by American ship-owners, but actually earned a bonus from underwriters, who offered a return of ten percent of the insurance premium upon voyages performed without the consumption of spirits ...

In early 2010, his original uptempo version of " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do " ( performed by a group of uncredited singers ) was being heard as the impetus for a series of insurance TV commercials, featuring actor Dennis Haysbert assuring that TV viewers not insured by Allstate can break up with their current insurer without much ado at all.

This FHWA study has been criticized on grounds that one of its co-directors has performed research for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ( IIHS ), a private corporation representing the auto insurance industry that profits significantly from insurance surcharges on drivers ticketed by red light cameras.

Supplementary private health insurance is available only to cover the co-payments or non-covered costs, and usually makes a fixed payment per days in hospital or per surgery performed, rather than per actual expenditure.

The Jewish trader performed both financing ( credit ) and underwriting ( insurance ) functions.

Legal actions began from a number of Japanese insurance companies at the start of 2002 towards the directors of Fortress Re, alleging Fortress Re had misrepresented losses and performed other improper acts, including Sabbah and his partner " amassing personal fortunes " by skimming money off the top from Sompo ’ s funds.

The two men each invested in the venture — Kaye had borrowed on a life insurance policy — in order to finance the start-up of TSR.

The adjuster undertakes an investigation of each claim, usually in close cooperation with the insured, determines if coverage is available under the terms of the insurance contract, and if so, the reasonable monetary value of the claim, and authorizes payment.

Short-term disability insurance covers a person for a period typically up to six months, paying a stipend each month to cover medical bills and other necessities.

Government regulations passed in 1929 required all insurance companies to reinsure 30 % of each policy with the Millî Reasürans T. A. Ş.

If the fixed costs were, say, $ 1000 per month for rent, insurance and owner's salary, the company could therefore sell 5 coaches per month for a total of $ 3000 ( priced at $ 600 each ), or 10 coaches for a total of $ 4500 ( priced at $ 450 each ), and make a profit of $ 500 in both cases.

Over the next decade, Medicare ’ s per capita spending is projected to grow at a rate of 2. 5 percent each year, compared to private insurance ’ s 4. 8 percent.

Publicly funded insurance is organized at the level of the province / territory ; each manages its own insurance system, including issuing its own healthcare identification cards ( a list of the provincial medical care insurance programs is given at the end of this entry ).

The federal government has no direct role in the delivery of medicine in the provinces and territories so each province and territory has its own independent public health insurance program.

Money was moving around Europe, and other flotations threatened to soak up available capital ( two insurance schemes in December 1719 each sought to raise £ 3 million ).

Other episodes include Sheriff McCombs deputy growing marijuana, Darnell ’ s daughter being kidnapped, a wife who kills her husband for beating her, a doctor who kills his wife and his mistress to keep them from talking to each other, a real estate developer being killed in an insurance scam, the return of Emily Trundel, and one of the best episodes of the series “ Family Reunion ” in which, an insurance investigator is on the trail of stolen money and is murdered.

The local economy is well-diversified, with services claiming 22 % of the workforce, manufacturing 19 %, retail trade 18 %, government 17 %, transportation and construction 6 % each, and agriculture, wholesale trade, and real estate / finance / insurance claiming 4 % each.

During the construction, the company operated a health insurance scheme for the labourers, with each worker contributing six pence ( 2. 5p ) per month, which was used to pay Mr. Robert Rean, an apothecary and surgeon from East Looe, for his services.

There would have been fifty separate incarnations of the Syndicate, each one a unique trading entity that underwrote insurance for one calendar year only.

The amount each institution is assessed is based both on the balance of insured deposits as well as on the degree of risk the institution poses to the insurance fund.

Between 1930 and 1932 Senator Glass introduced several versions of a bill ( known in each version as the Glass bill ) to separate commercial and investment banking and to establish other reforms ( except deposit insurance ) similar to the final provisions of the 1933 Banking Act.

Gramm responded in March 2008 to criticism of the act by stating that he saw " no evidence whatsoever " that the sub-prime mortgage crisis was caused in any way " by allowing banks and securities companies and insurance companies to compete against each other.

They declared debts totaling $ 3. 5 million, much of it because of Lopes's insurance payments arising from the arson incident and Watkins's medical bills, but the primary reason being that each member of the group was taking home less than $ 35, 000 a year after paying managers, producers, expenses, and taxes.

For more on specific types of real-life markets, see commodity markets, insurance markets, bond markets, energy markets, flea markets, debt markets, stock markets, online auctions, media exchange markets, real estate market, each of which is explained in its own article with features of its application, referring to market systems as such if needed.

It was now possible to set up an insurance scheme to provide life insurance or pensions for a group of people, and to calculate with some degree of accuracy, how much each person in the group should contribute to a common fund assumed to earn a fixed rate of interest.