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London and Lancashire Insurance was founded in 1862, and had become one of the U.K.'s leading fire insurers by the end of the 19th century. A series of acquisitions in the early 20th century took the company into accident and marine insurance, as well as life assurance, making it a leading composite insurer.
London Assurance Co., 113 U.S. 51 (1885), was a fire insurance case regarding two policies of fire insurance, issued March 10, 1883, by the London Assurance Corporation, of London for the property of the firm of Drennen, Starr & Everett, a business in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The loss occurred on July 29, 1883.
Phoenix Assurance or Phoenix Fire Office was a fire insurance company founded in 1680 in England. [1] The history of the company includes the nostalgia of red-coated attendants clattering to the fires of London on horse-drawn tenders. [2] The Phoenix figured in case law.
The marine and fire charters were unified by the London Assurance Consolidation Act 1853, the same year that Commercial and General Life Assurance was acquired; the Asylum Life Assurance was bought four years later. 1853 was also the year that the first overseas agents were appointed, with the entry into the U.S. market taking place in 1872.
By then, Sun Fire was turning its attention to all forms of general insurance but, as was the case with life assurance, it was limited by the terms of its original deeds. This was overcome by a special act of Parliament, the Sun Insurance Office Act 1891 ( 54 & 55 Vict. c. xcvii) which also saw a change in name to the Sun Insurance Office.
The Guardian Assurance Company was a British insurance company based in London and formed in 1821 to offer both life and fire insurance. Through a combination of organic growth and acquisition it became one of the leading insurance companies.
Emergency exit in Universitetet metro station in Stockholm. An emergency exit in a building or other structure is a special exit used during emergencies such as fires.The combined use of regular and emergency exits allows for faster evacuation, and emergency exits provide alternative means of evacuation if regular exits are inaccessible.
The company received its royal charter under the Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corporation Act 1719 (6 Geo. 1.c. 18), popularly known as the Bubble Act. [3] Under the terms of this legislation, the Royal Exchange and the London Assurance Company were the only incorporated bodies chartered to write marine insurance.