The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-14
LIFE INSURANCE
 MONEY FOR 191O Amounts Alabama Received
 During Year THE TOTAL IS S4,150,000 Total for United States Was $3S1,- 440,000-Use of Life Insurance In Protection of Business
 Interests

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 New York, June 1s.-(Special.) )-Life in- surance organizations of the United States and Canada distributed $56S 44O,ooo in 1910 according to computations by the Insurance Press The payments in the two countries to benefciaries for death claims. matured endowments and other benefits under the policies of level-prem- ium companies and the certificates of various life insurance organizations-as- sessment and the like-amounted to $751; 440,00o. The estimated total of the amounts paid by regular companies in dividends to policyholders. for surrender values, to annuitants. and on claims in foreign countries was s20oo,000.
 Summation of life insurance payments of all kinds fin 1910:
 Claims paid in the United States
 and Canada .....................s .sSs1, 44o, 900 Payments for dividends and for
 surrender values and to annui-
 tants and foreign policyhold-
 holders (estimated) ............. 1S2,o00.o 900
 Grand total .S56S, 44O. OO0
 Along all lines of benefits under poli- cies-death claims, endowments and divi- dends-the transactions of the regular life insurance companies continued to increase last year, under the normal conditions that prevailed. New insurance for more than g, 600. o.oOo,o0O of protection was writ dadifo- tions, the insurance in force showed an increase of nearly s1,0Oo,oo,00o.
 Business insurance boomed, the amounts of new insurance ranging from s100,o00 to s1,000,000. The appreciation of life inaurance for the protection of busi- ness interests has increased notably in the past three years. Chief executives and tions. on whose energy and experience successful transactions depend, have taken insurance against the contingencies of financial loss and interruption of op- erations in the event of death.
 Fraternal Order Payments
 The payments of fraternal orders and similar assessment organizations in- creased also in 1910. The year was event. ful for fraternal insurance After sev- eral conferences, a committee of the na tional convention of insurance commits sioners and representatives of the Ma tional Fraternal Congress and the Asso- ciated Fraternities of America agreed upon a uniform bill for the regulation and control of the organizations by the insur- ance departments of the states, with the purpose of establishing adequate rates and attaining solvency. The bill was sub- mitted at the sessions of the legislatures of many of the states this year. As to adoption. the record to date is not com plete.
 From reports sent to the Insurance Press have been tabulated the policies of Sooo0 and upward to the number of 23S. The largest insurance on an individual was for s475, ,25O; the next largest. $32O ,000.
 Names of well-known men in the list of payments: Chief Justice Melville w. Full Ter, Justice David J. Brewer and Thomas F. Walsh. Washington, D. C.; Thomas c. Platt George Crocker. Seth B. French, Judge Charles H. Traux, Louis Klopsch, proprietor of the Christian Herald; John
 
 Home Insurance company; Dumont Clarke, president of the American Ex- change National bank; Charles H. Treat, former United States treasurer, and John H. Huyler, New York; Leslie D. Ward, vice president of the Prudential Insurance company; James B. Dill. East Orange, N. J.; John Farson, banker, Oak Park, H.; Napoleon B. Broward. former gov ernor of Florida; Hugh T. Inman, At la arnfT. ,fn 1fx, commissioner of Maryland; Neil Burgess, Ezra F. Kendall and H. V. Donnelly, ac- tors.
 The number of women who had policies was noticeable. Mary B. Dun of R. c. Dun & Co.,, had insurance to the amount of s200,000
 The largest of the amounts of claims paid Is credited to the city of New York three boroughs (s36, ,446, 75O), with Phila- deiphia Gsl4072,5o0) second in the list. and Chicago (siSs4s,5oW, third.
 Alabama Got $4,150,000
 The summary by states shows that Ala bama received S4150,0 GOO In claims paid by life organizations during 1910
 The summary of cities has Birmingham in eighty-third place with s3s0,000. Other southern cities with their rank according to amounts received are New Orleans, tWenty-nTst, $l,0ff,UO, Atlanta, thirty third, $,14,25O: Memphis, thirty-sixth, s94s, 800; Nashville. forty-f1rst, $765, 900; Mo bile. fifty-ninth, s4Ss,5O0; Houston, eighty second, $366.000: Montgomery, ninetieth, S335. .000; Chattanooga, 18th, $22000.
 In 253s case sthe reports to the Insur- ance Press by the life insurance com panies of the United States and Canada showed payments of s1o,ooo or over.
 In 209 cases the amount of insurance carried ranged from $5O.00o to 500, 900. The s5O,000-to-s10O 900 claims numbered 1856; the s1oo0O0-to-s200, 900 payments numbered fl; the s200, 000-to- 900 cases numbered 8; the $500, COO to-$ 900 cases numbered 8; the s40,000-to-$50o,000 class furnished one example.
 In 1909 four payments in excess of $4o,- Ooo were recorded. But the s50.000-to-$ $100, GOO insurances matured relatively large number of cases in 1910. the number of such payments having been 156, against 90 In 1909. The over-$100 600 cases reported to the Insurance Press showed a consid- erable increase in 1910. the total for the year being 253s, against 2152 in 1900.