The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-06
News Of the Insurance World

of the third decade the widow would re =
Ceivc life pension of $3.50 annually
and each child under is years old Slo.'o
annually.
The system has been favorably COM
mentod upon everywhere. and there arc
those who declare that sooner or later
IT will he made 10 apply TO the united
States.
For Improvement of Race.
a Seattle physician has formulated a
plan whereby he expects to seErccatc all
degener9tcs lie says that some thirty
or more states, lin q tentative way.
have already begun n movement TO this
end which is the permanent segregation
of the degenerate in celibatc, industrial
communities, where their lives shall he
controlled. their passions curbed, their
native forces made effective. and they
themselves made as happy as their con
ditions admit Of under any circums tances.
far happier than when neglected or poorly
cared FOR, as is the case with most OF
| them today
The doctor contends that 1.-The present
| feeble and partial efforts al negative en-
| ergies should be greatly broadened In
scope and increa sed In effectiveness" He
| would make it by law impossible not only
! for the insane and idioiic 10 be married
| out The feeble minded of every character
| and epileptics, deaf muteS and blind per
| sons whose defect Is clearly traceahle Ia
| inheritance should he included In the pro
| hIbitiou. He is against all such carry
| Ing life insurance and still further that
| lanllD3I dTNnE5rd ana no person, re-
| formed or not who has ever had de-
| lirium hemens should he permitted TO be
| a father" lie says that public opinion
has advanced far enough 10 support laws
] TO this effect.
Reinsures With Metropolitan Life.
The Liberty Life of New York has
been reinsured nv the Metropolitan The
pa ssiuU OF this company is more than
unusually interesting from the fact that
| II was organized under the amended in
|
mated thai the company can he louidated
with an impairment OF about 10 per
cent
The career of the Liberty Life has
| been watched with interest by life in
suranCe men. who have Contcnded that
the New York statutes. as amended after
the legislative investigation of 1905: made
il almost impossible for new company
to start, much less survive in competition.
OF the companies organized in New York
state since 1905 there now remains hut
the Postal Life, whose stockholders re-
Gently purchased the Provident Savings
Life, 1t is pointed out that the Liberty
was fatally Handicapped from the first
by lack of experienced life insurance tall
cnt Furthermore. il started out in 1897
with the maximum capital allowed by law
and under such conditions the old high
pressure system would have driven IL to
the wall with older and stronger compa-
MICS.
Other young companies. organized be-
fore 1905. have failed il is said because
Of some defect i'm their organization. or
because Of essential financial weakness.
An Important Decision.
The United states supreme court has
rendered a decision which will have "A
wide Influence on worsmen's Compcnsa-
tion. Tho court Of last resort uphclds
the constiutionality of the Iowa law
which provides that participa tion by an
injured employee under the relief fund
Of railroad shall not bar him from
suing the corporation for personal dam
ages,
The case in point was ono I'm which an
employee Of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy sued the railroad for $1,000 dam
ages after receiving from tho railroad <
relief department SIS for his injuries,
The railroad contended that when elect
Ing To- participate under the relief de-
partmeDt the employee had agreed TO
accept such benefits I'm fun of all claims,
and that the lattcr's action released the
road from further liability.
Accident Company Loses Case.
For the first time the Kentucky court
OF appeals has been called upon 10 con .
strue the clause of accident insurance
policies In the case of a New York com
pany against Rolla *. Hart of Fleming
county, Judge O'Rear of the court wrote
tho opinion and held that Hart is en-
! titled To $500 for the disability OF one
foot and one hand.
Hart WAS stricken with PARALYSIS Feb
rlary ,. 1909 and was permanently un-
able 10 engage IN any work or occupa.
! t,on for wages profit and tllis dIsa-
blllty continued for fifty-tWo weeks
The company sought 10 avoid the pay