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-13 iBENIX„ .LIFE.-.ASSITRANCE COMPANY,
• 1, LEADENIIiLL-STREET, LONDON.
EsTABLIsma) 1848. .

caleeinixadvFeirrrelsoeiffineenet, lsitaal-mingg
tbaeaetn,,ixaetrted
Officein
the Tintes,
In consequence
has recently been threatened
if with the withdrawal of the busi-
ness of parties Loured there, a claim was not paid, which on
by th e oP
inquiry proved to be under a Policy of the Phoenix Marine
Office," meaning thereby the Phenix Life Assurance Company,
and referring to an Injunction obtaincd against that Company ;
the Directors of the Phmnix'Llf.3 Assurance Company directed
their Solicitors to apply to the Secretary of the Phoenix Fire
Office for the particulars of the claim ,alieged not to have been
paid, and received an answer from the Solicitors of that Office,
stating "that the claim alluded to arose from an insurance on
the St. Laurence.' " • •

•
Now, this Insurance was effected with the Phconix Life
Assurance Company for the sum of £2,100 upon goods; and in
the month of June last, a claim teas made thereon for average
to the extent of about £6O, bi,t the Directors of the Company,
upon investigation, considered the cl,-iin so questionable that
they proposed to refer It to Mr. Richards, the well-known
average statek, to xdjadieate thereon, since which no faillter
communication has been.received from the assured, who have
neither 64.i/opted the suggestion of such reference, nor made any
further demand in respect of such Insurance, considering
most probably their' demand to be wholly untenable.
Such is the amount and such the nature of the claim which
the Phcenix Fire Office have thought proper to advertise as a
claim which the Phoenix Life Assurance Company have not Paid,
it being the evident intention of such advertisement to lead the
public to suppose that the Company had been either unable or
unwilling to pay a claim justly due.
The Directors of the Company then instructed their solicitors
to apply to the solicitors of the Phoenix Fire-office, for the
names and addresses of the parties who had threatened to
withdraw their business from that office, as alleged in. their
advertisement, and in answer received a letter stating " that
the Directors of the Phwnix Fire Assurance Company decline
furnishing the further information called for."
At this very time the Directors of the Phcenix Life Ass:tr-
ance Company had in their possession proof of their accusers
icing open to the very charge which they were so ready to
bring against others. For on the 19th of July last there was
delivered at the Office of the Phoenix Life Assurance Company
a letter of application from a Solicitor, for the sum of
£4BO Bs. 2d., in respect of a loss occasioned by. fire, which
happened on the 23rd June last, such letter being evidently
intended for the Phcenix Fire Assurance Company,. and
stating that the particulars of the claim had been furnished
three weeks previously to the date of such letter, and pressing
for payment. .
• The Secretary of the Life Company, instead of considering
such letter a fit subject for a public advertisement injuriously
reflecting upon the characterof another Company, immediately
returned it to the- writer, informing him of his mistake in
addressing it to the Phcenix Life Assurance Company, instead
of the Phmnix Fire Office. The claim referred to in such_
letter was in fact against the latter Office, and was not paid up
to the end of August last.
The injunction referred to in the advertisement of the
Phcenix Fire Office was obtained under the following circum-
stances. In the course of the past year, the Officers of the
Phcenix Life Assurance Companyi-in the-pressure of business,
and without the slightest thought or notion of affecting or
interfering with the business
_of the Phcenix Fire Office,
caused the word "Phoenix" alone without the addition of the
word "Life" to be printed upon somenlips-for Polleiei. This
typographical error was made the subject of a,Bill in Chancery
by the Phcenix Fire Office, to restrain the use' of the name of
"The Phoenix" or the "Phoenix Assurance Coihpany,"
except with proper words, or addition, so as to distinguish
the Phcenix Life Assurance Company from the Phcenix
Assurance Company of London, although the error had
been discovered and rectified
,long before. the filing of the
Bill, without any communication from the Pheenix Fire
Office, and fresh slips had been printed, bearing the proper
title of the Phoenix Life Assurance Company; and immediately
the Bill was filed, (which was-the only notice-the Directors of
the Phcenix Life Assurance Company ever received of any
complaint being made against them on the part of the Phcenix
Fire Office,) they explained how the error had arisen, and
apologised to that Office for any inconvenience to which (if
any)
.theyenight hare been subjected by the mistake. The suit
Was nevertheless proceeded with; 'arid the Decree for the
injunction referred to by the .advertisement of the Phcenix
Fire Office, was merely to restrain such use as above 'men-
tioned of the name of the Plicenis or the Phoenix Assurance
Company, except with the addition of the word Life, which
:injunction was in reality wholly unnecessary,' and preserves to
the Phcenix Life Assurance Company that name and title
which only they desire to use, and to which they are as much
entitled by their Deed of Incorporation, registered in, 1848,
eleven years ago; as the Phcenix Fire Assurance Comapny is
entitled to their designation.'
In conclusion„ the Directors of the Phoenix Life Assurance
Company are as heartily desirous as the Directors of tfft
Phcenix Fire Assurance Company can be, of giving the most
public notice that there neither does, nor ever did, exist any
connection of any kind whatsoever between the Phoenix Lite
Assurance Company, No. 1, Leadenhall-street, London, E.C.,
and the Phcenix Assurance Company of London, alias The
\
Phcenix Fire Assurance Company.
MAUItICE EVANS, SECRETARY.

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