A Japanese Inspiration for Frank Lloyd Wright's Rigid-Core High-Rise Structures

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. Hearn
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Rigid Core ◽  
High Rise ◽  
National Life

Frank Lloyd Wright's rigid-core high-rise structures, initiated with the project for the National Life Insurance Company building of 1924, have their closest structural and iconographical analogue in one type of Japanese pagoda, exemplified by that at Horyu-ji. This association signals a previously undetected instance of Japanese influence on Wright's work.

Some Account of the French General and National Life Insurance Companies

1876 ◽  
Vol 19 (06) ◽  
pp. 435-445
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Preceding Paper ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
Similar Series ◽  
National Life

M. Philip de Bosredon, Manager of the FrenchGeneralLife Insurance Company, having kindly furnished us with the printed reports of that company for a series of years, and Mr. George W. Kilford having sent us a similar series of reports of the FrenchNational, it appeared to us that a notice of these reports would be of great interest to the readers of theJournalin connection with the preceding paper. We have therefore drawn up the following account of the companies, with the assistance of Mr. J. J. W. Deuchar, of theStandardLife Assurance Company, to whom is due the whole credit of preparing the various statistical tables.—ED.J. I. A.

Tuesday Evening

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1357-1357
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Local Committee ◽  
Tuesday Evening

On Tuesday evening the members of the Association, and attending members of their families, were entertained with a buffet supper at the Queen City Club at 7:30 p.m. at the invitation of Messrs. Joseph S. Graydon, John J. Rowe, and other Cincinnati friends of the Association. Following this supper an entertainment arranged by the Local Committee was presented in the Hall of the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company. Attendance: about 900.

Hr Practices And Hr Policies At Icici Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-354
Author(s):  
T. Krishna Veni ◽  
G. Kalyani
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Hr Practices ◽  
Commercial Center

The job of Human Resources is changing as quick as innovation and the worldwide commercial center. Generally, the HR Department was seen as organization, kept individual documents and different records, dealt with the enlisting procedure, and gave other authoritative help to the business. Those circumstances are different. The positive consequence of these progressions is that HR experts have the chance to assume a progressively vital job in the business. The test for HR chiefs is to stay up with the latest with the most recent HR developments—mechanical, lawful, and something else.

Indian Life Insurance Market and Corporate Performances: A Study of Selected Firms

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Chakraborty ◽  
Partha Pratim Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Market Concentration ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
Life Insurers ◽  
Company Limited

In the pre-reform era, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LICI) dominated the Indian life insurance market with a market share close to 100 percent. But the situation drastically changed since the enactment of the IRDA Act in 1999. At the end of the FY 2012-13, the market share of LICI stood at around 73 percent with the number of players having risen to 24 in the countrys life insurance sector. One of the reasons for such a decline in the market share of LICI during the post-reform period could be attributed to the increasing competition prevailing in the countrys life insurance sector. At the same time, the liberalization of the life insurance sector for private participation has eventually raised issues about ensuring sound financial performance and solvency of the life insurance companies besides protection of the interest of policyholders. The present study is an attempt to evaluate and compare the financial performances, solvency, and the market concentration of the four leading life insurers in India namely the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LICI), ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited (ICICI PruLife), HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited (HDFC Standard), and SBI Life Insurance Company Limited (SBI Life), over a span of five successive FYs 2008-09 to 2012-13. In this regard, the CARAMELS model has been used to evaluate the performances of the selected life insurers, based on the Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) as published by IMF. In addition to this, the Solvency and the Market Concentration Analyses were also presented for the selected life insurers for the given period. The present study revealed the preexisting dominance of LICI even after 15 years since the privatization of the countrys life insurance sector.

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