Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-29
SECRETARY LOVE TELLS
OF WAR RISK BUREAU
Phenomenal Work Done by Govern
mcnt in lnsuring Lives
OF Soldiers.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS MEET
Representatives OF Various Insur-
nnce Companies OF This Country
I'm Annual Session at jefferson IIu-
tcl-OniCcrS Arc Elected.

Thomas r. Love. assistant secretary
OF The treasury. and former commits
sioncr OF insurance for the state OF
Texas. was the principal speaker at
the morning session Yesterday OF tho
eighth annual meeting OF the medical
directors OF the various insurance
companies of this country. now III
progress In the jefferson Hotel. His
subject was The Work OF the War
Risk Insurance Bureau
Mr.. Love described in detail the pro-
visions OF the war risk insurance act
OF 1917. and spoke OF the tremendous
tasks imposed upon the War Risk In
surance Bureau even before il was
created Before the bureau could be-
gin to carry out the allowance and al
lotnent provisions of the law, signed
statements from the 100000 soldiers
and sailors scattered throughout the
country At training camps and stations,
had to be obtained.
\ section OF insurance underwriters
from tho bureau crossed the seas 10
France TO write insurance for the men
in tho service there. Because Of do
restic changes OF address many ~ tho
check allowances were returned and
the new problem OF the location OF the
proper address had TO be met with
TELLS OF WORK or
WAR RISK BUREAU
In part the speaker said: When the
war risk insurance act became eff
fective on October 6, 1917, the War Risk
Insurance Bureau was confronted not
only with the task OF Immediately
lllotments and allowances 10 the
families and dependents Of 100000
soldiers and sailors. and the additional
problem OF making immediate pro-
vision for the adjudication and pay
ment OF death or disability claims
1f ~
dividual risks, but also the problem OF
writing not less than $1,000 and not
more than $4,000 of l!fc and pcrma :
nent total disability insurance upon n
possible 100000 men. all OF whom
must be canvassed and insured II az
all within period OF four months.
IT think that it will he agreed that
this presented tho largest and grarcst
problem OF getting the business on the
books as insurance men say, mat
ever confronted an insurance organ
;zation. and /; should be remembered
that this emergency task was imposed
upon an organization not then in
existence. but which must be created
and organized. Before the work or
writing the insurance could be begun.
it was necessary to determine and
publish the terms and conditions OF
the insurance contract and psomulsate
the nrernium rates. This was done six
days after the act became 4 law"
STEADY PURCHASES
MADE ny SOLDIERS
Mr. Love then reviewed the steady
purchase OF insurance through the war
risk bureau, by January IS last,
47S.ooo men were insured for more
604.0oo men were insured for more
than $1,000, 600 GOO. and on February g
more than $4,000. 300. 900 had been
written on the lives OF $4,000 men.
More than Il billion dollars We're writ
ten IN tho week from January IS 10
January 90 Since the extension o.
the sixty-day period from February 70,
when applications for insurance wcr.
liked by the original law 10 come to
an end, the volume OF Insurance has
increased steadily until to-day there
is more .haa I4.o0o.0ooooo OF insur-
ance In force. and more than l.70o, 600
out OF a possible 3,o0O, 900 have been in
sured and the end is not yet
MEDICAL DIRECTORS 10
HEAR DIR. I'OSIAY TODAY
The meeting OF the medical directors
comes to close this afternoon. This
morning az $50 O'clock among several
addresses viii be. -that OF 'Dr. p. Max
we'll Foshay, inspector ef risks. OF the
Mutual Lie Insurance Company OF
medical directors attending the ses-
sions who represeH, considerable
number OF States IN the Union.
Officers Of tie convention were
elected last Night as follows: DR. G. V.
Woollen, chairman, of IN" American
Central Life Insurance company. In
..ianapoIis, Ind; Or {. y. MaCloud.
v!ce-cha!rman. OF tho Minnesota
Mutual Life Insurance Company, :,
E'aul. MINI; DIR. i. l.. u J"nucy. re-
elected secretary. O, the Federal Life
Insurance Company, chicago. pr. J. III.
Insurance Company Houston. Texas;
and Dr. Frank /. Trujtt. Of the Re
serve Loan and Life Insurance Com
pany. Indianapolis, Ind. The i've n"n