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Read v Great Eastern Railway (1868) LR 3 QB 555 [5] was an English tort law case which created a strong authority [6] enshrining the principle that if a deceased person has settled a damages claim discharging all the claims and causes of action against the defendant in full satisfaction within their lifetime, [7] [4] no further action can be brought by their representatives if the injured ...
The subsequent enquiry found that the derailment occurred at a trailing crossover which was being worked on by three platelayers.The three maintained they had just been clearing and repacking the ballast which would not have impaired the stability of the track; and the only contributing cause was the high speed of the train.
10 September – United Kingdom – Thorpe rail accident – Two Great Eastern Railway passenger trains are in a head-on collision at Thorpe St. Andrew, Norfolk, due to irregular dispatching procedures. Twenty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured.
It is the largest publicly traded life insurance group in the Asia-Pacific region. It offers insurance and financial services, writing life insurance for individuals and businesses, as well as accident and health insurance, and offers retirement planning, and wealth management services, variable contracts, investments and securities.
Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd, often known as Great Eastern Life or simply Great Eastern, is a Singaporean multinational insurance company and subsidiary of OCBC Bank operating in the Southeast Asia region. Founded in 1908 by Alfred Hewton Fair, it is the largest and oldest life insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia.
In 1908, he went to Singapore as secretary to the newly established firm of Great Eastern Life Assurance Company (today known as Great Eastern Life).In 1918, he was appointed director, and in 1923, was appointed managing director when he succeeded the founder of the company, A. H. Fair, on his retirement.
TruStage Financial Group is the marketing name for CMFG Life Insurance Company, its subsidiaries, and affiliates. TruStage Financial Group was founded in 1935 as the CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. Its purpose was to offer financial protection to Americans during the credit union movement. [ 8 ]
Sir Henry Whatley Tyler (7 March 1827 – 30 January 1908) was a pioneering British engineer and politician, who contributed to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and whose collections helped found the Science Museum in South Kensington. His interests were mainly in railways, where he served Inspector of Railways and a railway company director but ...