Insurance Designation Lookup https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Medicare & Medicaid Truman’s National Health Insurance Proposal Loma Prieta Earthquake Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) Employer Health‑Benefit Tax Exclusion 1987 — Whittier Narrows Earthquake The Liability Crisis (Late 1970s–Mid‑1980s) 1977 — NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program) 1968 — Creation of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) 1965 — Hurricane Betsy (“Billion‑Dollar Betsy”) 1964 — The Great Alaska Earthquake & Tsunami Smart’s Insurance Bulletin (1953–early 2000s) Underwriters Report and the Pasini Era (1920s–1990s) The Rise of Surplus & Excess Lines Brokers (Late 1970s–1990s) The Rise of ADR Clauses in Insurance Contracts (1970s–1990s) The Rise of Choice‑of‑Law Clauses (1960s–1970s) Wilburn Boat (1962) Sanborn Maps and the Craft of Early Fire Underwriting (1867–1950s) Formation of ISO (1971) The Actuarial Modeling Revolution (1960s–1980s) Mainframes Transform Insurance Operations (1950s) The Rise of Direct Writers (1950s–1970s) Insurance Timeline How the Auto Carriers Took Over Personal Lines WWII Marine & Aviation Insurance (1939–1945) The Postwar Personal‑Lines Boom (1945–1965) The McCarran‑Ferguson Act (1945) United States v. South‑Eastern Underwriters Association (1944) The Invention of the Homeowners Policy (1950s–1960s) The Standard Fire Insurance Policy (1943) The New England Hurricane (1938) Group Health Expansion in the 1930s 1935 — The Social Security Act The New London School Explosion (1937) Punch Cards for Mortality Tables Kaiser Permanente and WWII Founding of The Institute of Actuaries The American Adoption of Actuarial Science IBM Punch‑Card Computing & the Rise of Actuarial Automation First Auto Insurance Policy Early Liability Insurance Workers’ Compensation Galveston Hurricane 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire Triangle Shirtwaist Fire The Rise of Rating Bureaus (Early 20th Century) Rise of Reinsurance (Early 20th Century) Marine & War‑Risk Insurance in WWI