Mortality Statistics of Insured Wage-Earners and their Families: Experience of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Industrial Department, 1911 to 1916, in the United States and Canada

1920 ◽  
Vol 17 (129) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Arthur Newsholme ◽  
Louis I. Dublin ◽  
Edwin W. Kopf ◽  
George H. Van Buren
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Mortality Statistics ◽  
Metropolitan Life Insurance ◽  
Wage Earners

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-258
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Voluntary Health Agencies ◽  
Metropolitan Life Insurance

Dr. George M. Wheatley has been appointed a third vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, it was announced by Leroy A. Lincoln, president of the company. Dr. Wheatley will be associated with Dr. Donald B. Armstrong, second vice-president, in the supervision of the company's health and welfare activities. Dr. Wheatley began his work with Metropolitan in 1941. His services since then have dealt with the company's health and welfare program, which involves visiting nurse service, health education, research, and cooperation with medical societies and officials, and voluntary health agencies in the United States and Canada.

scholarly journals To Do a Work that Would Be Very Far Reaching: Minnie Geddings Cox, the Mississippi Life Insurance Company, and the Challenges of Black Women’s Business Leadership in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHENNETTE GARRETT-SCOTT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Standard Life

In early December 1923 in Memphis, Tennessee, Minnie Geddings Cox sat in a hastily arranged board meeting across from Heman Perry, clear now that the man she had believed her advocate was most assuredly her adversary. Cox and Perry, a man Forbes magazine would describe in 1924 as the richest Negro in the world, spent nearly a year maneuvering a merger to join her company, Mississippi Life Insurance Company, the third largest black-owned life insurance company in the United States, with his Standard Life of Atlanta, which ranked second.1 They shared a vision to create the largest black-owned life insurance company in the United States—or so Cox thought.

Supreme Life: The History of a Negro Life Insurance Company, 1919–1962

1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Puth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of

The history of Supreme Life Insurance Company, now the third largest black insurance firm in the United States, is representative of its industry as a whole. In this first study of an individual Negro life insurance firm, Professor Puth suggests that Supreme Life may also serve as a barometer of future trends as black firms compete with larger white companies now being drawn into the formerly segregated market by falling mortality rates and rising incomes among Negroes.

Metropolitan Living: The Los Angeles Parklabrea Apartments

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-371
Author(s):  
Aaron Cayer
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Housing Shortages ◽  
Metropolitan Life Insurance

Reflecting a commitment to public service and an interest in abiding investments, life insurance companies after the Second World War were responsible for the construction of an unprecedented number of housing developments across the United States. They were able to help alleviate housing shortages, elevate the standards of postwar housing, and offer new forms of modern living. This article examines the practices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and its developing of Parklabrea (now Park La Brea) in Los Angeles during the 1940s. As the largest housing community west of the Mississippi River, Parklabrea stands prominently in the center of the city, though it is elided in histories of California housing. Against the backdrop of postwar public housing, which failed in part due to a disregard for urban context, Parklabrea’s history reveals how life insurance companies were increasingly attuned to the social, physical, and economic contexts of postwar cities.

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