Life Assurance Offices.--Fees to Medical Men

Fees for Medical Reports for Life Assurance

To the Editor op the "Indian Medical Gazette." Dear Sir,? I send for perusal, .and publication, if you think fit, a copy of some correspondence which has taken place between the Manager of the Oriental Life Assurance Company of Bombay and myself, regarding the amount of the fee paid by that company for a medical report on an applicant for assurance. You will notice that the Manager considers th...

Demands of Medical Fees from Medical Men

Medical Examiners and Coroners ’ Offices , 2004

About 2,000 medical examiners and coroners' (ME/C) offices provided death investigation services across the United States in 2004. These offices were responsible for the medicolegal investigation of death. They may conduct death scene investigations, perform autopsies, and determine the cause and manner of death when a person has died as a result of violence, under suspicious circumstances, wit...

Life Assurance in India

Mr. President and Gentlemen,*?My brother Dr. Arnold Caddy and I have been considering for some time whether some interesting information might not be extracted from our records of insurance cases examined by us. Our records were commenced by Dr. Coulter and my brother in the year 1892, and since Dr. Coulter's retirement in 1904, I have been assisting in their compilation also, thus for the last...

Medical Fees in the Colonial Period *

A comparison of physicians' fees in the Colonial period with those of today should reveal much of interest and value. Numerous daybooks are available establishing the sums paid to the physician in the currency of the time, but obviously direct comparisons cannot be made because of the change in the purchasing value of the units. Consultation with historians, sociologists, and economists has ind...