British Insurance Industry since 1900. The era of transformation
Details:
- Author(s) Carter, Robert L, & Peter Falush
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 236pp; illus
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
Topics:
- Name Legislation & regulation exc h&s & competition policy
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work by insurance industry specialists. Deals with the industry's successful development over 100 years - widening policies to cover changing risks and broadening savings products - and the context in which this has happened - crises, legislative and regulatory development, changing role of the state. Chapters include: 'From the end of the Victorian era to 1914'; 'World War 1'; 'The interwar years'; 'World War 2'; 'From austerity to prosperity'; 'Life insurance'; 'Commercial insurances'; 'Reinsurance'; 'Risk management'; 'Lloyd's of London'; 'International business and Europe'; 'Competition & mergers'; 'Trade associations & other bodies'; 'Insurance distribution channels'; 'Insurance regulation'; 'Looking ahead'