In this timely and informative book, the Insurance Library Association of Boston provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and practices of fire insurance. Drawing on years of experience and expertise, the authors offer valuable insights into topics such as risk assessment, claim management, and regulatory compliance, making this book an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the complex world of insurance. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from The Principles and Finance of Fire Insurance In the autumn of 1903 I had the honour to deliver a course of ten lectures at the London School of Economics (University of London) on "The Principles, Practice and Finance of Fire Insurance." These lectures were well received, and caused a gratifying amount of interest, not only among those who listened to them, but also among insurance officials outside. I have, therefore, ventured to recast my Lectures in the form of this book, and present the result in the hope that it will be accepted as a serious study in the comparative science of insurance. For many years past I have had opportunities of being in close touch with nearly every branch of insurance business, and it has become a matter of conviction that no one branch can be profitably studied by itself. The great branch of insurance on property known as Fire Insurance is closely akin in many respects to the other great branch of Marine Insurance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lectures on Fire Insurance: Being the Substance of Lectures Given Before the Evening Classes in Fire Insurance Conducted by the Insurance Library Association of Boston During the Fall and Winter of Nineteen Hundred and Eleven and Twelve In offering to readers this volume of lectures on Fire Insurance the trustees of The Insurance Library Association are actuated solely by a desire to be helpful in the movement for the better training of young men, which seems now to be general throughout the country. The lectures themselves were delivered before students in evening classes formed to aid men in their preparation for the examinations of the Insurance Institute of America. It is not supposed that they possess in all cases either exceptional originality of thought or exhaustiveness of treatment. The lecturers are men engaged as managers, inspectors, engineers or attorneys at law, in the successful performance of exacting duties. Lack of time alone, from the insufficient hours of days already filled with labor, rendered impossible the extended research and comprehensive comparison indispensable to works of pure scholarship. The aim has been to combine theory with practice and to present problems from the standpoint of the beginner. If the reader has been made to see the inherent difficulties of many of these problems it is felt that he will have been helped more than if offered easy solutions which seem simple but do not solve. The Association is greatly indebted to the lecturers all of whom have offered their services freely. Especially is it indebted to Frank M. Forbush, Esq., attorney-at-law, who, although not a member, contributed the chapters on local agency law, which may be confidently claimed constitute the most comprehensive monograph on this subject, as it applies in Massachusetts, which has ever been written. Also mention should be made of those individuals and firms through whose courtesy most of the illustrations used in these pages were made available. They include Messrs. Knight & Thomas, American District Telegraph Company, Eco Magneto Clock Company, American La France Fire Engine Company, A. J. Morse Son, Boston Auto Fire Alarm Company, Badger Fire Extinguishing Company, Hersey Manufacturing Company, United Shoe Machinery Company, New England Bureau of United Inspection, and the National Fire Protection Association of Boston; C. T. Ham Manufacturing Company, Minimax Company, Newman Clock Company, Pyrene Manufacturing Company, Safety Fire Extinguisher Company, and the Gamewell Fire Alarm Company of New York; the Robinson Fire Apparatus Manufacturing Company of Saint Louis; Builders Iron Foundry Company of Providence; The Insurance Field of Louisville, Ky.; H. J. M. Howard Manufacturing Company of Washington, Buffalo Steam Pump Company, Buffalo; Rodney Hunt Machine Company, Orange, Mass., and the Waggoner Sanatory Fire Bucket Company of Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.