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The Risk of Natural Catastrophe in Early America: Perspectives from the Phoenix Assurance Company London and Nascent US Insurers.
- Source :
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk & Insurance; Jul2023, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p243-253, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper surveys insurance policies and proposals by companies that operated in the decades around 1800 in different regions of the North American continent. Our survey serves to compose a landscape of environmental risks that early insurers registered. This line of inquiry merits special attention for records of the Phoenix Assurance Company London, which include a unique documentation of natural hazards shaped by the risk inspection tour of the British insurance expert Jenkin Jones. We attempt to offer a long-term view on those natural catastrophes and disaster-prone regions that hold a prominent place in American memory since the late nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17932157
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk & Insurance
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171314360
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1515/apjri-2023-0039