THE ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICI

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...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

A Life Assurance Congress

A meeting of the International Life Assurance Congress is to be held at Brussels in September. The programme of proceedings includes many matters regarding which medical examiners are often greatly exercised, such as the eligibility of syphilitica, alcoholics,neurasthenics, albuminuries and glycosurics, persons with faulty hearts, persons with a tuberculous family history and so forth. While in...

Syphilis and Life Assurance

The Measure of Expenses in Life Assurance

SIR,—Mr. Macfadyen, in his paper on the above subject, read before the Institute in May last, made special reference to a paper contributed by me to the Journal for October 1874, and did me the honour of coupling my name with that of Mr. Sprague, as an originator of a new way of looking at the expenses of life offices. Mr. Macfadyen takes the view that Mr. Sprague and I contend " that " a certa...