Investigation Into The Plans And Practices Of Co Operative Insurance Organizations Chiefly Those Known As Endowment Associations

Author : John J. Tobin
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ISBN 13 : 9781332620050
Total Pages : 102 pages
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Download or read book Investigation Into the Plans and Practices of Co-Operative Insurance Organizations written by John J. Tobin and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Investigation Into the Plans and Practices of Co-Operative Insurance Organizations: Chiefly Those Known as Endowment Associations Such a plan to furnish money relief to an humble family at the lowest cost, and at time of great need - either in old age, or in case of accident or death appeals to the masses as most deserving of support. At first this plan was adopted by fraternal societies organized for other and different purposes, who put it in, so to speak, as a new plank in their platform. Those interested in the old line life and accident insurance companies tried, by every means, to cry down this new departure on the part of the fraternal societies. The country was deluged with literature showing the impossibility of success. Experts were employed who proved, beyond the possibility of contradiction, the utter absurdity of the fraternals being able to fulfill their obligations. "Figures don't lie, You cannot go beyond the logic of cold facts," they continually cried out. Still, in spite of such direful prophecies and predictions, in the face of adverse arithmetical demonstrations, against all powerful monopoly influence, these fraternal societies have calmly pursued the even tenor of their way and faithfully carried out their pledges. It may now be said that they have passed the experimental stage and entered upon a career of permanent usefulness. No one is now rash enough to dispute that the fraternal cooperative insurance societies have furnished an immense amount of relief at low cost. Methods Of Old Line Insurance. They occupy a field inaccessible to the methods of the old life companies. They have forced the latter to a considerable reduction of rates, and brought them to a realizing sense that their days of undivided sway are passed forever. The enormous amount of money locked up in the reserve funds of the old line insurance companies, mounting up to the tens and hundreds of millions, is not now accumulating at such an alarming ratio. Take, for instance, the millions hoarded up annually and placed in reserve funds by the Mutual Life of New York, the Equitable Life Assurance, the Connecticut Mutual Life, and the New York life insurance companies. Where do they come from? They represent an amount over and above the necessary expenditures which was taken directly from. the pockets of their policy holders in premiums. That it is proper for such companies to have a reserve or guarantee fund is unquestionable, even if the law did not require it, but to go on forever squeezing their shareholders in order to pile up this reserve fund mountain high, is baneful policy and unjust to those who pay. The thousands of insured who have raised up these immense piles from a cipher foundation have practically about as much present and prospective interest in the reserve funds, except in the way of guaranty, as the slaves under King Rameses had in the Egyptian pyramids which they had helped to build. The Pennsylvania insurance reports show that the level premium insurance companies collected in ten years $699,250,701. They paid in losses and matured endowments during the same period $285,354,004. Where did the difference go, amounting to the enormous total of $413,896,797? Twenty-nine companies in the State of New York received in premiums, in 1888, over $114,000,000 of which only $48,000,000 were paid for death claims, while $29,000,000 were paid for expenses. For every dollar, therefore, paid for death claims more than sixty cents was paid for expenses. The balance, $37,000,000, were added to the assets of the companies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com