Monday, November 28, 2011

America's first fire insurance company

Benjamin Franklin led the effort to create America's first fire insurance company. The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire was established in 1752 with a board of directors and seventy shareholders. The first insured property to burn was repaired for 154 pounds, nearly a third of the Society's assets.
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