Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-12
MANY TO ATTEND
INSURANCE MEET
PACIFIC COAST TO SEND DELE
CATION TO LOUISVILLE
PLAN TO HAVE SPECIAL CARS
START FROM LOS ANGELES
Boston and Detroit Both Want Next
convention-Other Matters of
Interest to Life Under
writer's Association

II ton to the national convention
of life underwriters at Louisville next
October than ever has been the case
heretofore" said John w. Wilmington,
| first vice president of the National As
sociation of Life Underwriters, yester-
day. Los Angeles and San Francisco
will each send a full delegation, and
the associations at Portland, Seattle and
other western cities will be well rep
resented.
1.-THE convention will be opened at
Louisville October 6. We are endeavor-
ing to have the western men meet at
! I.os Angeles and take special cars there
| through to Louisville. Plans are now
under way for speakers and program,
and there is every Indication that the
| convention, which will be the associa-
TONS twentieth session, will be the
most important ever held, A, greater
/ interest is being taken by lifeRinsurance
men over the country in assoclat1ng 1or
| advancement of insurance matters, and
the Louisville convention will Guido all
former meetings as to attendance.
western delegates will unite in back
| ing the San Francisco associations
campaign for the national convention
| in 1912 This is in accordance with the
plans adopted at the last national con-
vention at Los Angeles in August
when San Francisco announced the de-
cision to endeavor to bring the meeting
| to the-coast again in four years.
The Los Angeles Life Underwriters
association has elected as delegates to
the convention of the national assocla-
ton John w. Wilmington, Charles ).
| Montgomery, j. A. Russell, jr., w. b.
stirdivant and G. A. Rathburn, with l..
| J. Muma, T. P. Smith, e. Alexander,
lG. S. Yarnell and Garner Curran as
alternates The only plan of action so
| far adopted for the local delegation is
TO give San Francisco every possible as
sistance in working for the 1872 con-
vention
Detroit and Boston will probably pre-
sent invitations to the association a.
fine louisville convention for the meet
| ing in 1910.
Suspended for Special Contracts
officers of the West Coast Life lnsur-
ance company who were members OF
the life Underwriters association of
| san Francvisco have been suspended
from membership by that association on
the charge of writing special contracts.
Unless the officers sign written pledge
! that the company will hereafter dlscoh-
tinue writing anything in the nature Or
! board contracts the suspension Will
stand as an expulsion.
Al the last meeting of the San Fran
| cisco association the executive commit
tee submitted a report that charges
against the company of writing specldi
| contracts were found true, and the as
sociation voted for suspension py d
vote OF 23 to 1. The company CON
tract which was said to Vlolate me coal,
stitution of the association was known
| as a especial correspondence contract
Campaign on Bankers Life
Every bank in California has been
| sent a letter signed by w. a. Noou'
I ~. 7 60 Ind
ISOLATION of Los Angeles, setting forth
the attitude of life insurance men
toward the practice by banks of acting
as collectors and agents for the Bank
ers Life association of Des Molnes
! This. in accordance with resolution
adopted at the Los Angeles conVeh-
ton of the national association urging
| local associations to make speclal Ell
| forts against the custom "on the
ground that it is pernicious and in
| furious both to legitimate life lnsur-
| ance and the public at large.
"Insurance men generally are good
natrons of banks" said I. ]. Muma,
| first vice president of the Los Angeles
association yesterday, yet they do not
ask the bank to advertise them IN the
way the Bankers Life is getting adVer-
Using. There is an impneo co ,ea in
between the bank and the lie asso-
citation that amounts in way to an
Endorsement by the bank which is mis-
leading to the public.
Giles Comes to Los Angeles
Robert j. Giles, a leading insurance
man of San Francisco, will come to
the home office of the Occidental Life
Insurance company July 1 as manager
of the monthly payment accident de-
nartment of that company in Los An
eeles. He will succeed d. F. NC
| T ,aughlin. who resigned to enter an
other field Of work. Mr.. Giles mas spent
fifteen years in life and accident m
surance work in San Francisco, ana Is
now connected with the general agency
of the accident department OF the DC
cidental in that city.
New general agencies of the Occl-
dental Life Insurance company IN the
life department are r. d. Lane at
Phoenix, Stalker & Tucker at Port
land Ore, and John M. Leslie at Po-
mona.
The board of fire underwriters of the
Pacific has received word that Blsbee,
Ariz.. has made arrangements to in
stall an adequate water system NO
change is reported in the status OF
other towns in this territory which
lack sufficient fire protection.
OUTFLOW OH E-dOhCtH itiR
Charles Outflow, special southwest
ern agent for the Home Insurance
company, will return next week from a
trim to the home office, on which ne
passed considerable time with local
a gencies of his company in Arizona
and New Mexico points under the Los
Angeles agency.
Local Insurance Bulletins
The first of a series of bulletins on
insurance subjects of general public
interest has been issued by the Los
Angeles Life Underwriters associa-
tion The bulletins will present sub
iects of value to policyholders and
will be distributed widely among BUSH
ness men in Southern California.
Authoritative articles from leading in
surance journals will be reproduced in
the bulletins.
Another local addition to the insur-
ance periodicals is a quarterly, THE
Occidental Record" published by the
Occidental Life Insurance company.
The first number contains full-page
portrait of President Joseph Burkhard
as a frontispieece.
The board of fire underwriters of the
Pacific has notified agencies to pre-
pare for the STANDARD policy under
the new law, which will become effec-
tive August /. According to the
boards circular existing contracts can
not be rewritten under the new law,
but policyholders who wish to take adj
vantage of the liberal provisions of
the statute must surrender their old
policies and take out new ones, plan
which is not likely to prove popular.
Clarence de Veuve has been made