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Bad faith

In Canada, one case of this type resulted in a record punitive award of $1 million CAD when an insurance company pressed a claim for arson even after its own experts and adjusters had come to the conclusion that the fire was accidental; the company was advised by legal counsel that the desperate insured parties would be willing to settle for much less than what they were owed.

Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority

It include banks, insurance companies, pension companies and other companies operating in the insurance sector, investment firms, fund management companies and the Helsinki Stock Exchange.

Helena Dyrssen

Subsequently, she worked in the business world, first as CIO at TV4 and then in a similar position at the insurance company If P&C Insurance.

Paul Lafargue

In 1882, he started working in an insurance company, which allowed him to move back to Paris and re-enter the core of French socialist politics.

Spartan Fidelity

The name Spartan Fidelity is derived from rearranging the name of an Alabama insurance company, Fidelity Spartan.


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1916 in poetry

When Wallace Stevens' job as a lawyer for a New York City insurance company is abolished as a result of mergers, he joins the home office of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and moves to Hartford, where he will remain the rest of his life.

Acuity Insurance

The company began as the Mutual Auto Insurance Company of the Town of Herman in 1925 (in the unincorporated village of Franklin in Sheboygan County).

AIZ

Assurant, a specialized insurance company based in New York, NY

Ala Moana Center

In 1982, Ala Moana Center was purchased by a partnership of Japanese corporation, Daiei, and an insurance company.

American Income Life Insurance Company

American Income Insurance Company was officially founded in May 1951 by the company's president, Harold Goodman, and executive vice president, Bernard Rapoport (Goodman's nephew).

Antenna TV

As is common with digital multicast networks, advertisements featured during commercial breaks on Antenna TV primarily consist of direct response advertisements for products featured in infomercials and particularly during its Saturday morning children's programming, public service announcements; satellite provider Dish Network and insurance company Progressive are currently the network's primary national sponsors.

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company

RMS Titanic - The Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company also helped to insure the RMS Titanic.

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, also known as The Equitable, was founded by Henry Baldwin Hyde in 1859.

Batterson

James G. Batterson (1823–1901), American designer and builder, owner of New England Granite Works, founder of Travelers Insurance Company

CGU plc

In the US, the CGU casualty and property businesses were purchased by White Mountains Insurance Group; the name of the Company has since changed to OneBeacon Insurance Company.

Charles Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate

Lawrence was Chairman of the London and North Western Railway from 1921 to 1923 and of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from 1923 to 1924 as well as Chairman of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company and the Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway.

Chris Hay

Hay currently works in Canada for insurance company Manulife Financial as an Underwriting Analyst.

Christopher Needham

He was chairman of the National Boiler and General Insurance Company and was also a director of the London and North Eastern Railway, the Manchester Ship Canal and the Alliance Assurance company.

Colchester, Connecticut

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley (1803-1872), Bacon Academy graduate (1819), state senator, state's attorney and founder of Aetna Insurance Company (1846)

Commerce Insurance Group

Commerce Insurance was founded in 1972 as small insurance company in the south-central Massachusetts town of Webster where the company is still located and headquartered.

Delta Dental

For instance, one of the larger member companies, Delta Dental Insurance Company (DDIC), provides coverage for Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Texas, and Utah.

Dick Powell

But 1948 saw him step out of the brutish type when he starred in Pitfall, a film noir that sees a bored insurance company worker fall for an innocent but dangerous woman, played by Lizabeth Scott.

Ed McIntyre

A graduate of Morehouse College, McIntyre worked for the Pilgrim Health Life Insurance Company before entering politics.

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley

Judge Bulkeley's sons Morgan (the future president of the Aetna Life Insurance Company) and Charles (who would die in the Civil War) worked cleaning the office.

Evan G. Greenberg

He is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Zurich based insurance company ACE Limited.

Fire sprinkler

The first of these was Major Hesketh, who, in addition to being a cotton spinner in a large business in Bolton, was Chairman of the Bolton Cotton Trades Mutual Insurance Company.

Graakalbanen

Then the tavern and farm at Ugla burnt down in 1931, and the insurance company allowed the insurance money to be used to be built at Lian.

GuardAir

The airline was founded in 1992 by Einar Rønnestad, and started with a Cessna 210 that it operated for the insurance company Storebrand to find stolen cars and boats.

Henry Engelhardt

Henry Allan Engelhardt (born 17 January 1958) is the founder and chief executive of Admiral Group, a British motor insurance company.

I spy

A survey by British insurance company Direct Line found that 58% of families played I spy, and 65% of the parents consulted had played it on journeys as a child.

ING Vysya Bank

As of January 2013, ING Group plans to divest itself of its Indian insurance and investment management businesses through the sale of its 26% interest in ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Ltd. to its joint venture partner Exide Industries Ltd.

Jaap Schekkerman

From 1985 to 1989 he managed the IT Research & Development department of the insurance company Centraal Beheer, and in 1989 became IT consultant at the Dutch Software developer RAET.

Jean Peyrelevade

Previously, in 1991, the bank had acquired the then insolvent and now-defunct Californian insurance company Executive Life.

Jeremiah Davis

In 1881, Davis moved to Rockford where he became director of the Forest City Insurance Company and the Rockford National Bank.

John Hancock Insurance

In 2000, led by David F. D'Alessandro, the company "demutualized", meaning that "John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company" formally ceased to exist, and a new company named "John Hancock Financial Services, Inc." came into existence.

Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert

He was born at Lyon, the son of Étienne Delessert (1735–1816), the founder of the first fire insurance company and the first discount bank in France.

Kees Brusse

Furthermore, he performed in commercials for Shell and Zwitserleven, the Dutch branch of insurance company Swiss Life.

Kosta Taušanović

Besides being a deputy in the Serbian parliament, Taušanović was, after the abdication of King Milan Obrenović, a Minister in several governments (Minister of Interior 1889-1891 in Grujić’s cabinet, Minister of Economy 1891-1892 in Pašić’s Cabinet), and founder of the first insurance company in Serbia, as well as the Serbian Lottery (Srpska Lutrija) and the Serbian Shipping Company (Srpsko Brodarsko Drustvo).

Lion of Saint Mark

The Lion of Saint Mark is also the symbol of the award of the Venice Film Festival, the "Golden Lion", and of the insurance company Assicurazioni Generali.

Louis-Roland Comeau

Since that time he served on various boards, chairing life insurance company Assomption Vie and air traffic control operator Nav Canada.

MT Unirea

This action resulted in a thorough inspection of the ship's wreck by independent survey teams, employed by the insurance company from Lloyd's Register, Japan.

Neil Back

Back and Nick Beal share the unusual distinction of being contemporary players whose names are anagrams of each other's, and they both worked for insurance company Equity & Law at the same time, too.

Peerless Group

The Peerless Insurance Company Limited was founded in Narayanganj, Bangladesh by Radhyashyam Roy in 1932, soon after he was joined by his friend K. K Chatterjee and they started Provident Fund, with an investment of Rs. 20,000.

Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa

The insurance company agreed to pay a ransom for the stolen pictures, and three weeks after disappearing the painting was recovered from a storage room in Parkdale.

Raz-Lee

The company's clients include Fiat, Agfa, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Avnet, AIG, Dun & Bradstreet and the Israel branch of American insurance company American International Group, among others.

Skeppsbron

N.20, Brandstodsbolagets hus ("House of the Fire-insurance Company"), designed by Isak Gustaf Clason (1856–1930) and built by the turn of the century 1900 in the style of Tessin the Younger.

Sompo Japan

Sompo Japan Insurance Company of Europe, a corporate member of Lloyd's of London since 1993, conducts underwriting and provides claim settlement, risk management and insurance information mainly to Japanese companies.

Stojan Andov

Bosko Andov is a manager of Australian insurance company QBE in Macedonia, Liljana is psychologist, she is married with a Greek-Vlach, they have 2 kids a son named Vlatko Bescu and daughter.

UNIFI

UNIFI Companies, the company formed by the 2006 merger of Ameritas Acacia Mutual Holding Company and Union Central Life Insurance Company

Volaris

Major initial shareholders of the company were Grupo Televisa (the world's biggest Spanish-language media conglomerate), Inbursa (an insurance company owned by billionaire Carlos Slim), Avianca (then TACA Airlines) and the Discovery Americas Fund.

Wallace Barnes

Barnes has also been a director of nearly twenty companies and groups, including the Metro Hartford Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturer’s Association of Hartford (and was also president from 1965-1968), the Automobile Insurance Company of Hartford, the Loctite Corporation, the Rogers Corporation, and many others.

Weaveworld

Calhoun "Cal" Mooney: A bored young man whose life alternates between his job at an insurance company in Liverpool and caring for his father until he encounters the mysterious rug that instantly strikes him as something peculiar.