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A History of British Insurance. Pitman Publishing. ISBN 9780273416418. Stalson, J. Owen (1942). Marketing Life Insurance: Its History in America. Harvard University Press. Zelizer, Viviana (1979). Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780878559299
Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations) is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of an insured person.
The biological half-life of strontium in humans has variously been reported as from 14 to 600 days, [86] [87] 1,000 days, [88] 18 years, [89] 30 years [90] and, at an upper limit, 49 years. [91] The wide-ranging published biological half-life figures are explained by strontium's complex metabolism within the body.
The longest-lived of these isotopes, and the most relevantly studied, are 90 Sr with a half-life of 28.9 years, 85 Sr with a half-life of 64.853 days, and 89 Sr (89 Sr) with a half-life of 50.57 days. All other strontium isotopes have half-lives shorter than 50 days, most under 100 minutes.
The life insurance field was getting much publicity at that time because of the Armstrong Investigation in New York State. This was an important event in insurance history with a comprehensive legislative investigation of life insurance operations led by Charles Evans Hughes. Many years later, Huebner said that the investigation and corrective ...
Protective Life Insurance Company was founded in 1907 and paid its first death claim in 1909. In 1927, Protective merged with Alabama National Insurance Company, and Alabama National's president, Samuel Clabaugh, became the president of the combined companies which continued to do business as Protective.
The Cigna Group is an American multinational for-profit managed healthcare and insurance company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. [2] [3] Its insurance subsidiaries are major providers of medical, dental, disability, life and accident insurance and related products and services, the majority of which are offered through employers and other groups (e.g., governmental and non-governmental ...
Some authors credit Cruickshank with first suspecting an unknown substance in a Scottish mineral, strontianite, found near Strontian, in Argyleshire.Other authors name Adair Crawford for the discovery of this new earth, due to the mineral's property of imparting a redding color to a flame. [10]