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  2. History of insurance - Wikipedia

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    In December 1901 and January 1902, at the direction of archaeologist Jacques de Morgan, Father Jean-Vincent Scheil, OP found a 2.25 meter (or 88.5 inch) tall basalt or diorite stele in three pieces inscribed with 4,130 lines of cuneiform law dictated by Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BC) of the First Babylonian Empire in the city of Shush, Iran.

  3. Social Security Death Index - Wikipedia

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    A government audit revealed that the Social Security Administration had incorrectly listed 23,000 people as dead in a two-year period. These people sometimes faced difficulties in convincing government agencies that they were actually alive; a 2008 story in the Nashville area focused on a woman who was incorrectly flagged as dead in the Social Security computers in 2000 and had difficulties ...

  4. Insurance - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another in exchange for payment "Insure" redirects here. Not to be confused with Ensure. For other uses, see Insurance (disambiguation). An advertisement for a fire insurance company Norwich Union, showing the amount of assets ...

  5. Insurance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A common typology of insurance in the United States is to divide the industry into life and health insurers, on the one hand, and property and casualty insurers on the other: Life, Health Health (dental, vision, medications, others) Life (long-term care, accidental death and dismemberment, hospital indemnity) Annuities (securities) Life and ...

  6. Life insurance - Wikipedia

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    Accidental death insurance is a type of limited life insurance that is designed to cover the insured should they die as a result of an accident. "Accidents" run the gamut from abrasions to catastrophes but normally do not include deaths resulting from non-accident-related health problems or suicide.

  7. List of United States insurance companies - Wikipedia

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    In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the state of New York, many of which would subsequently fail. Between 1870 and 1872, 33 US life insurance companies failed, in part fueled by bad practices and incidents such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 3,800 property-liability and 2,270 life insurance companies were operating in ...

  8. Category:History of insurance - Wikipedia

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  9. Indexed universal life - Wikipedia

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    Indexed universal life (often shortened to IUL) is a type of universal life insurance product that offers a death benefit coupled with a cash value account that can be used to pay policy premiums or take withdrawals and loans. [1]