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BEST'S INSURANCE REPORTS   FIRE AND MARINE.   59

CALEDONIAN INSURANCE COMPA:N 1-, Edinburgh, Scotland.

UNITED STATES BRANCH, 50-52 PINE STREET, NEW YORK.

ADMITTED ASSETS, L. S. BRANCH, DECEMBER 31, 1919.

Real estate owned (market value)    

$410,000

00

Bonds and stocks owned (market value)   

1, 990, 529

00

Interest due and accrued thereon    

20.203

37

Cash in banks and office    

171,396

71

Agents' balances not over three months due.

446, 416

10

Due for reinsurance on losses paid    

7,377

86

TOTAL ADMITTED ASSETS    $3,045,923 04

GENERAL REVIEW.

History.— This company was established in 1805. Its authorized capital is £1,000,000, of which £537,500 have been subscribed and £107,500 paid in. It entered the United States in 1880, and controls and operates the Caledonian-American Insurance Company, of New York.

Besides its own policies, it' issues and guarantees those entitled " Scotch Underwriters."

Management and Reputation.—The company is conservatively managed and is in excellent standing at its home and in this country.

It is in excellent repute concerning its general treatment of loss claimants. Its expense and loss ratios have been about normal.

The investments of the United States Branch are of excellent character. The security valuations in this statement are those fixed by the Convention of Insurance Commissioners.   .

The real estate consists of a modern fire proof office building, located at 50 Pine street, N. Y.. and carried at its assessed value.

Affiliations.— Eastern Union, Western Union, Southeast-ern Underwriters Association, Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, Rocky Mountain Underwriters Association, Eastern Automobile Underwriters Conference, National Automobile Underwriters Conference, New England Automobile Underwriters Conference, Western Automobile Underwriters Conference.

United States Manager.—Charles H. Post, New York: assistant manager, R. C. Christopher.

United States Trustees.— Walter Phelps Bliss, E. G. Merrill and John Yates Gholson Walker of New York.

Classes of Business Written.—The company writes life, fire. accident and liability insurance. Ins he United States and Canada it writes fire, sprinkler leakage, automobile and tornado insurance.

Territory.— It is licensed in all the States and Territories except Ark., Guam, N. M., N. D., Okla., Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, S. C., S. D. and the Virgin Islands. It also operates in Canada.

Department.— Pacific Coast Department, Balfour,

LIABILITIES, U. S. BRANCH, DECEMBER 31. 1919.

 

LOSSES:   Adjusted,   due,   $14,813.06;   not

due, $31,795.10; in process of adjustment.

$189,108.83;   resisted,   $17,024.64;   total,

 

 

$252,741.63;   reinsurance, $78,385.98; net.

$174,355

65

Unearned premiums':   Fire and miscellane-

ous,   $1,755,481.97;   inland   navigation,

$153,273.28;   total    

1,908,755

25

Salaries, rents, etc   

2, 000

00

Estimated taxes hereafter payable    

50, 000

00

Reserve for contingencies    

10, 000

00

TOTAL LIABILITIES, except statutory

 

90

capital deposit    $2.145,110

STATUTORY CAPITAL DEPOSIT, $200,000.

NET SURPLUS, U. S. Branch, Including

Statutory Capital Deposit    

900,812

14

TOTAL   $3,045,923

04

Guthrie & Co.. Geo. O. Hoadley, fire manager, San Francisco, Cal.

INCOME. U. S. BRANCH, 1919.

Marine

   Fire, etc.   and Inland.

   Gross premiums written.. $3,439,703 87   $436, 958 58

Less reinsurance    907,188 20   29,955 68

Less return premiums..   678, 267 35   127, 164 10

 

80 67 00

TOTAL INCOME    $2,270.148 79

DISBURSEMENTS, U. S. BRANCH, 1919. Net losses paid:

Fire and miscellaneous    $763,251 49

Marine and inland    259.319 91

TOTAL   $1,022,571 40

Underwriting expenses    914,513 22

Remitted to Home Office    174, 804 34

Other disbursements    122,558 67

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS    $2.234.447 63

Ratios to Premiums Written.—Losses paid. fire, etc., 41.1%; marine, 92.7%; incurred, 44.8%; underwriting expenses. 42 8%; underwriting profit, 8.2%.

Ratios to Premiums Earned.— Losses incurred, 46.3%; expenses incurred, 45.3%; underwriting profit, 8.5%. Miscellaneous, 1919.—Net losses incurred, $955,917.97; net risks in force December 31, 1919, fire and miscellaneous, $325,570,582; marine and inland, $8,556,265; net premiums in force, fire and miscellaneous, $3,365,027.88; marine and inland. $306,546.57.

Underwriting Exhibit, 1919.— Premiums earned during 1919, $2.062,956.79; gain from underwriting profit and loss items, $3,212.03; total, $2,066,168.82.

Losses incurred during 1919, $955,917.97; underwriting expenses incurred during 1919, $934.513.22; total, $1,-890,431.19.

Total net premiums.. $1,854.248 32   $279,838

Interest, etc   136, 041

Other income    20


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