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The Journal of Risk and Insurance is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering insurance economics and risk management. The journal is published by Wiley on behalf of the American Risk and Insurance Association. The current editor-in-chief is Joan T. Schmit (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
On August 10, 1926, Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company incorporated in Memphis, Tennessee, under the laws of Mississippi, to take over the business of Columbian Mutual Life Assurance Society. It wrote life, accident, and disability insurance. It covered the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. [5]
Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in the social sciences and public policy. It was established in 1963 as Transaction: Social Science and Modern SOCIETY by Irving Louis Horowitz. It was published by Transaction Publishers before being purchased by Springer Science+Business Media in 2003.
Gleaner Life Insurance Society is a member-owned, nonprofit fraternal benefit society. It was established in 1894 and its home office is in Adrian at 5200 W. U.S. 223.
Permanent life insurance is life insurance that covers the remaining lifetime of the insured. A permanent insurance policy accumulates a cash value up to its date of maturation. The owner can access the money in the cash value by withdrawing money, borrowing the cash value, or surrendering the policy and receiving the surrender value.
The Society was founded in 1837 under its original name, the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. The "Loan Fund" part of the name reflected the Society's practice of allowing insureds to borrow back a portion of their premiums, an unusual feature in its day but one that is now commonly practiced in the form of "policy loans".
The Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), founded in 1762, is a life insurance company in the United Kingdom. The world's oldest mutual insurer, it pioneered age-based premiums based on mortality rate, laying "the framework for scientific insurance practice and development" [1] and "the basis of modern life assurance upon which all life assurance schemes were subsequently based". [2]
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