The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-26
STATE COMMISSIONERS
on INSURANCE GATHER
Annual Conference OF Men In Charge
of Insurance Departments Is
Here This Week.
FOUR DAYS AT THE JEFFERSON
Many Interesting Papers On Problems
Confronting Officials Will Be Read
and Discussed-Texas Muir d r
Takes Ono Speaker on Program.

Commissioners of Insurance from
States having Bureaus of Insurance
began arriving in Richmond last night
for the four days conference the com
missioners will have at the JEFFERSON
Hotel. The gathering is the annual
conference of the National Conven-
ton OF State Insurance Commission
ers. and a number of problems faced
by the commissioners in the hand
ling Of their respective departments
will be discussed.
The sessions will begin this morn
Ing and will continue twice daily
through Friday. A number of en-
tertainments, including boat trip
q golf tourney at the Country Club
OF Virginia. have been planned by
Colonel Joseph Button commissioner
for Virginia, who is host.
One of the papers to have been pre-
scented at this conference will not be
read by the commissioner to which II
was assigned. The subject was state
Rate Making-Its Methods and Ell
feet" and the reader was to have
been John s. Patterson. of Texas
Commissioner Patterson, recently
while in the discharge OF his duty.
was shot dead by an officer Of a bank
on which he was posting a notice
closing the institution. Mr., Patterson
was commissioner OF banking as well
as OF insurance.
Move For Memorial.
A movement is now under wav 10
place a bust of the murdered official
in the ONCE OF the department al Aus
tin. Texas. and during the conference
here suitable memorial action will be
taken.
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and those who are to present the pa
pers are:
Reserves of Fire Insurance Com
panies." Supt c. r Nesbit. Washing
ton. D. c.
'Inter-Insurance Accounting."
Carey j. wilson. Kansas.
The Best Way of Obtaining Cor
rect Annual Statements" r. j. Mer-
riii. New Hampshire.
Department Cooperation. Audit
ing and Preparing and Publishing An
nual Reports" r. II. Hardin, Massa
chusetts
Can Printed Statements BE Made
to Harmonic with Convention
Forms?" H. Pierson Hammond. Con-
necticut.
Unauthorized Insurance" c. c.
Thompson, Arizona.
Life Insurance From the Stand
point sNrdluetaoshrdlu Z II
Missouri.
Complaint Bureau Of Insurance
pepa rtments-Their Func o s. .
Frank Taggart, Ohio.
How Can the Cost Of rnsuran ce
lie Reduced" J. Denny o'Neil, Penn
sylvania.
Anti Determination Laws In Fire
Insurane," George NJ. LaMonte. New
Jersey.
Many Varieties In@,iranc.
ITO what Extent Us Social or Wei
fare insurance Feasible In the United
States. and How Should II Be Done ?''
Rufus NJ Potts. Illinois.
How Far Should a Life Insurance
Company Go In Conserving the Lives
of Its Policyhoiders? F.. r. Harper
Colorado.
automobile Insurance. h o II d
Fire Companies Be Authorized to
Person II. d. Appleton. New York
The National Government As a
Preferred Creditor In Surety Insur-
ance." william NJ. Shehan. Mary
land.
The Value of Schedule Rating In
Securing Equitable Fire Insurance
Rates" william F. Dunbar. Tonnes
see
Can Insurance Rates Re Properly
Made BY a Representative Form of
Governments" NJ. J. Cleary. Wiscon-
sin.
Whole Family Insurance BY Fra
T.