Insurance Designation Lookup https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home The American Adoption of Actuarial Science (Late 19th Century) The Lloyd’s Act of 1982 The Lloyd’s Act of 1911 The Lloyd’s Act of 1871 The Marine Insurance Act (UK), 1906 Insurance Timeline The Rise of Auto Insurers (1920s–1930s) Nationwide Founded (1926) GEICO Founded (1936) USAA Begins Offering Auto Insurance (1922–1924) Progressive Insurance Allstate Insurance Founded (1931) Farmers Insurance Founded (1928) Whatever Happened to Fireman’s Fund? How the Big P&C Carriers Lost Auto — and How It Reshaped Their Fate State Farm Insurance Founded (1922) The Institute of Actuaries (Founded 1848) Automobile Liability & the Birth of Auto Insurance (1910s–1920s) William Makeham & the Gompertz–Makeham Law (1860) Benjamin Gompertz & the Gompertz Mortality Curve (1825) The Carlisle Mortality Tables (1780s–1815) 1918 Influenza Pandemic & Life Insurance (1918–1920) Rise of Reinsurance (Early 20th Century) Galveston Hurricane (1900) Early Liability Insurance (1880s–1910s) IBM Punch‑Card Computing & the Rise of Actuarial Automation (1930s–1950s) Punch Cards for Mortality Tables (1890s) William Morgan & the First Actuarial Valuation (1775–1776) Marine & War‑Risk Insurance in WWI Founding of the Society for Equitable Assurances (The Equitable), 1762 James Dodson & the Birth of Modern Life Insurance (1756–1757) The Johnstown Flood, 1889 Books Lloyd’s Coffee House (1688) The Rise of Rating Bureaus (Early 20th Century) Early Islamic Takaful (7th–10th Centuries CE) Buddhist Sangha as a Risk‑Sharing Institution (500 BCE – 500 CE) Clan Mutual Aid Systems in Confucian China (1000 BCE – 500 CE) Mutual Aid in Ancient India and the Śreṇi Guilds (1000 BCE – 500 CE) Essay: The Maritime Origins of Insurance — How Seafaring Cultures Invented Risk Transfer San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) Edmund Halley’s Life Table (1693) Essay: The Industrialization of Risk — How the Modern World Turned Uncertainty into a System Workers’ Compensation (1911–1920s) Essay: The Rise of Information Markets — From Gutenberg to Lloyd’s List Essay: Religious Risk Management — How the Great Traditions Turned Uncertainty into Moral Obligation The Legal Foundations of Modern Liability (1850–1916)