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1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 176 When the matter..remains still within the lungs..there's but little security of life: and I am confident never a one of the Colledge keeps an insurance office for such a businesse, nor will ensure thereupon at 50 per cent.

1680 (title) (Br. Mus. ^{816 m. 10.}/ ₆₇) An advertisement from the Insurance Office for houses at the Backside of the Royal Exchange.

1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 254 Assurance or Insurance is a just and faithful Compact, by which one, or more, in Consideration of the Payment of a Sum of Money agreed on, called the Insurance Premium, takes upon himself all the Dangers which may or shall happen to the Ship, Vessel, Effects, and Property of another.

a1776 R. James Diss. Fevers (1778) 24 An insurance broker, in Castle Alley, near the Royal Exchange.

1781 W. Cowper Friendship 106 Like Hand-in-Hand insurance plates, Most unavoidably creates The thought of conflagration.

1784 in H. M. Brooks Days of Spinning-Wheel in New Eng. (1886) 62 The Gentlemen forming this Insurance Company, whose names are inserted in each Policy.

1841 R. W. Emerson Self-reliance in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 86 The insurance-office increases the number of accidents.

1866 C. N. Emerson Internal Revenue Guide 73 Insurance agents shall pay ten dollars.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxviii. 409 If her [sc. Smyrna's] crown of life had been an insurance policy, she would have had an opportunity to collect on it.

1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels ii. ii. 199 He was an insurance agent—a retired doctor, who growing weary of saving lives with pills, had taken to insuring lives with policies.

1879 Harper's Mag. July 215/2 The insurance men..would..insure the lives of the hands who were at work there.

1879 Harper's Mag. July 215/2 Their insurance men..insured us and our workmen.

?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 83 Insurance Company's officer, manager, actuary, secretary,..clerk.

1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliii. 436 Insurance-agency business, you know; mighty irregular.

1889 Cent. Dict. Insurance commissioner, in some of the United States, a State officer who in behalf of the public maintains a supervision over the affairs of insurance companies.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 484 The rapid, nervous, palpitating ‘insurance heart’, so constantly observed among candidates for life assurance.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 11 Apr. 2/2 To determine whether we cannot agree together to reduce our respective insurance-rates.

1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 55 §15 The regulations made by the Insurance Commissioners.

1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 55 §15 The Insurance Committee for each county or county borough.

1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 55 §115 This Act may be cited as the National Insurance Act, 1911.

1912 Chemist & Druggist 80 950/2 Cards and stamps for health insurance under the National Insurance Act are now procurable at post offices.

1912 Punch 31 July 99/3 Mr. Masterman has laid it down that it is the wife's duty, and not that of the husband, to lick the servants' insurance stamps.

1913 Punch 15 Jan. 49/1 As the 15th of January approaches, bringing fulfilment of 9d. for 4d. through operation of Insurance Act.

1913 Punch 13 Aug. 148/3 Somebody come to see about an insurance card or something.

1915 W. Owen Let. 22 June (1967) 189 Am feeling quite independent of Insurance Policies just now.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 78 Ah Phœnix, Phœnix John's Eagle! You are only known to us now as the badge of an insurance Company.

1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 741/1 The injustice of throwing on the landlord in whose house they happen to be resident the cost of a large additional insurance benefit for those who are sick.

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. i. 32 He..threw an insurance card and some money on the table.

1930 Morning Post 7 Aug. 11 The employers at four factories agreed to take upon themselves the charge of the insurance stamp which the men refuse to pay.

1933 Radio Times 14 Apr. 98/1 Meltonian Cream..is..an insurance policy for shoes.

1933 C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 47 The Insurance Agent, the Vicar, Hard Cheese the Confidence-Tricker.

1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 243 This play had been written..by a young insurance adjuster.

1945 N. L. McClung Stream runs Fast xii. 99 But one day, an insurance man, hearing that Wes had sold his drug store came out to offer him an agency, and Wes became an agent for the Manufacturers' Life Insurance Company.

1958 Listener 23 Oct. 634/2 The insurance officer denied that this was an industrial accident.

1961 Listener 10 Aug. 219/2 An insurance adjuster who also acts as a private detective.

1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) xiv. 101 Harvey E. Wyman was red-faced and jovial... He was also, unlike so many small insurance agents Ballard had met, very smart.

1973 W. McCarthy Detail i. 56 You should check the people you choose more carefully... They must also have special diets. Just an insurance policy.