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INFORMATION RELATING TO INSURANCE AND THRIFT 



On I March 1917 this mutual fund began its ninth year of business. 

 It is probable that before the year ends the insurance against accidents of 

 labourers employed on farms will have become general in Italy by the effect 

 of a special law. 



UNITED STATES. 



THE UNFAVOURABI^E RESUIyTS OF INSURANCE AGAINST HAH, IN 1916. — The Eco- 

 nomic World, New York, 10 March 191 7. 



1911 was a bad year for insurance companies in the United States in 

 so far as insurance against hail was concerned. There are as yet no de- 

 tailed statistics for the whole country; but the Insurance Department of 

 Massachusetts issues annual lists of figures, and so large a proportion of 

 the more important companies report to this department that its list 

 gives a good idea of general tendencies. The following are the figures 

 thus supplied for 1916 : 



Compauy 



Premiums 



Ivosses 



American 



American Centra.l .... 

 City of Pittsburg .... 



Cologne 



Commercial Union .... 



Connecticut 



Fire Reassurance 



First Bulgarian 



First Russian 



Frankline Fire, Pa. ... 



German Alliance 



German American .... 



Glens Falls 



Globe and Rutgers .... 



Hamburg 



Hartford 



Home 



Imperial 



Insurance Company of North 



America . 



Jakor 



I/iverpool and London and 



Globe 



London amd Lancashire. . 

 Mechanics and Traders . . 



$ 225,660.46 



33,466.80 

 3.352.21 



46,663.95 

 284,700.00 

 159,839.41 

 100,422.60 

 123,169.99 



31,049.84 

 164,447.78 



30,232.27 



653,36342 

 78,036.00 

 18,869.92 

 63,277.28 

 1,651,390.00 

 1,480,346.81 

 40,784.67 



49,717.86 



243>037-.55 

 34,482.00 

 34,834.41 



$ 166,928.14 



72,268.93 



2,465-30 



52,315.29 



316,340.00 



113,985.41 



120,423.83 



157,022.65 



22,539.44 



150,546.77 



33,004.08 



656,914.61 



75,771.00 



13,950.31 



52,318.76 



1,646,777.00 



1,447,031.45 



44,824.41 



39375 



41,107.59 



179,205.00 

 30,962.49 

 28,868.12 



