History of Life Assurance in the United Kingdom

Abstract

The earliest event of the year 1844 was the presentation to Parliament of the “First Report” of the Committee on Joint-Stock Companies, appointed in 1841. The report set out by stating that, as a good deal of the information affecting persons was in the nature of ex parte statements, caution would be required in promulgating it: hence much of the evidence collected would he stated summarily. I shall confine myself here to the passages bearing upon Insurance Associations.