Insurance Company of North America

  • wikipedia.org///Insurance_Company_of_North_America
    • Insurance Company of North America (INA) is the oldest stock insurance company in the United States,[2] founded in Philadelphia in 1792. It was one of the largest American insurance companies of the 19th and 20th centuries before merging with Connecticut General Life to form CIGNA in 1982, and was acquired by global insurer ACE Limited (currently Chubb Limited)[3] in 1999.
  • The first corporations formed in this country for insuring lives were those of the Presbyterian Ministers Fund (1759) and a similar company organized for the benefit of Episcopal ministers (1769).
    • Neither of these corporations offered insurance to the general public. In the last decade of the eighteenth century many insurance companies were formed in the United States.
    • At least five were chartered to underwrite life risks, but only one, The Insurance Company of North America, appears to have accepted any.
    • There is no basis for saying that any of these early companies tried to sell life insurance.

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