The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-12
News of the Insurance World

the life department OF the Travellers. al
Denver mas been appointed general agent
Tor the coinpanys liability department ia
the mountain field. succeeding G. NJ Kin
ney, who has been transferred to In
dianapolis.
The regular quarterly meeting OF the
l tan Association OF Life Underwriters
VIII take place al the Commercial club
on TUESDAY. January ], commencing at
the hour or ! O'Clock y. m. Business OF
Importance will he Translated and a fun
attendance is desired.
The article, Must the Life Agent Coz"
from the pen OF Superintend Iielscr
or the Continental Life, referred 20 in
last Mondays Tribune appeared In the
Cnfstnas edition OF tho fnSurancc Field
~ was Intended as reply 10 the presi-
dent OF the Postal Life Insurance COM
pany. who wrote FOR the same paper q
detense OF bis company's nou-ag gcncy plan.
san Francisco burglary insurance un-
dcrWrt,ers and the police commission arc
az outs over the numerous buTElaries In
that city OF late and the consequcId In
crease in burglary "a ties for the city. The
police commission contends that the cN-
cesslvc burglarics were due 10 shorta Gc
In ihc number OF police. but the insur-
ancc agents refuse TO ACCEPT the cNDla ma ..
lion.
An entcrprisins employment agency In
SPOKANE. Wash. advertised to give % Job
TO each purchaser OF an accident policy
and WAS said TO be doing a thriving busi-
ness until stopped by the insurance com
missioner. who ruled that the scheme
was in violation OF the rebate Law, for
which Washington Is said 10 he famous.
j. s. Root. founder OF the Mfdern
Noodincn OF America and later Of tine
Noodmen OF the World. OF which Inc has
pcen sovereign comma nder ever since,
died last week al Uendersonvillc. X. G.
he was regarded as forcefu figure I'm
iraternal insurance.
The North Dakota supreme court mas
hrid the act creating q state bonding
department TO he unconstitutional. The
law was 10 havc gone into effect on
January and the INSURANCE commissioners
had even conc so fat as 10 have had
printed the necessary blanks and books
for the Issuing OF bonds to state city
and county employees.
with the beginning OF the new year
numerous field changes are announced
from all parts OF the country. Ono of
local interest is that OF John w. Whit
tington. former president OF the National
Association OF Life Underwriters. who,
after several years connection with the
Aetna Lie at Los Angeles. has resigned
TO accept the general agency for south
ern California of tho National Life OF
the United States.
peculiar accident and one from which
ne died on Christmas day, hefell George
w. RIGGS. wcll-known Chicago insur-
ance man. riggs was painting the ba th-
with the paint can overturned on his
race. The theory IS that he waH suffo-
Gated by the fumes OF The paint. lie
was a I different times general agent for
the Travellers Of Hartford. He carried
accident insurance in amount Of S26. 900
IN several companies.
Mrs. Elizabeth n. Coray. for several
years past socicty editor OF The Tribune,
has Joined the ranks of life insura nee
agents, and last week received the ap-
pointment OF special agent of the Equit
able Life Assurance society with the
assigned territory Of Salt Lake City and
vicinity Mrs. Coray enjoys the dis
tinction OF being the second woman In
Utah 10 actively engage herself in tho
business of selling life insura nee her
competitor being Miss Alice Lund OF
E,phraim City, agent for the Penn Mu-
tual and member OF tho executive
committee Of the Utah Association OF
Life Underwriters. Mrs. Coray's large
acquaintance and wide circle Of friends
VIII. IL is believed. result In her writing
large volume of business each year.
The Capital Life Insurance company
bas secured the services of ID. L. Hays. n
local insurance man, who. during 1919
was agency director for tho Intermoun-
tain Life Insurance company Before
that he was with the Continental Life
Insurance d Investment company for four
and half years. and previous to that
time was with the New York Life In
suraDcc company.