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BEST'S INSURANCE REPORTS   FIRE AND _MARINE.   233

MARITIME INSURANCE COMPANY, LIIIITEI),
Liverpool,. England.

I'NITED STATES BRANCH, COTTON EXCHANGE BLDG., NL\\ YORK.

TOTAL ADMITTED ASSETS   :...   8584.013 31

ADMITTED ASSETS, U. S. BRANCH, DECEMBER

31,   1919.

Bonds and stocks owned (market value)    

$427, 500

00

Interest due and accrued thereon    

4. 511

28

Cash in banks and office    

22. 949

10

Agents' balances not over three months due.

125.562

57

Reinsurance due on losses paid    

:3. 490

36

GENEIt.1r, REVIEW.

History.—This company was established in 1864. Us authorized capital is 41,000,008 ($5,000.000), of which 4500,000 ($2.500,000) has been subscribed and 0100:000 ($500.000) paid in. It regularly entered the United States in July, 1908. Previous to that time it wrote some business on the Pacific Coast.

In 1914 control of this company was purchased by the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company of Edinburgh.

Home Office Resources.—All assets of the company are liable for the payment of losses incurred here. We there-fore present the following extracts from the Home i Office balance sheet (the latest available) which includes all its assets and liabilities: Assets, December 31, 1917. $7.966,-473: capital paid in, $500.000; net surplus, $4,265.326.

Management and Reputation.— The company is under reputable and experienced management. and is in excellent repute at its home and abroad. Its United States branch is under the same management as the British and Foreign Marine. Ocean _Marine, and Reliance Marine insurance companies, of England, and the American and Foreign Marine Insurance Company of New York.

The operations of the United States branch• as a whole. have not shown large underwriting profits. In 1917. 1915 and 1919, however, good underwriting profits were made.

LI:IBILITIES, U. S. BRANCH, DECEMBER 31, 1919.

Losses in process of adjustment, $27,519; re-

sisted, $2,500:   total    

30, 019

00

Uncalled premiums:   Inland navigation, $5.-

345.45: marine. $37,696.40;   total   

46.041

85

Salaries, rents, etc    

50

00

Estimated taxes hereafter payable    

43,950

U0

TOTAL LIABILITIES. except statutory

capital   deposit    

$120.060

85

STATUTORY CAPITAL DEPOSIT. $200,000

NET   SURPLUS. U. S. Branch, including

statutory capital deposit    

463. 952

46

TOTAL   

$584.013

31

Interest, etc   

19. 761

30

Received from Home Office    

37.310

58

Other income    

500

00

TOTAL INCOME    

$379.809

28

DISBURSEMENTS, U. S. BRANCH, 1919.

21

Net losses paid    

$143,939

Underwriting expenses    

55,360

07

Remitted to Home Office    

111, 159

15

Other disbursements    

14, 890

30

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS    $325,348 73 Ratios to Premiums Written.—Losses paid, 44.6%; incurred, 35.9%; underwriting expenses. 17.2%; underwriting profit, 39.0%.

Ratios to Premiums Earned.— Losses incurred, 38.7%; expenses incurred, 22.6%; underwriting profit, 38.9%. Miscellaneous, 1919.— Net losses incurred, $125,296.79; net risks in force December 31. 1919, $40,114.24; net pre' miums in force, $54.387.31.

Underwriting Exhibit. 1919.— Premiums earned during 1919, $3.23,286.14: gain from underwriting profit and loss items, $1.062.65: total, $324,348.79

Losses incurred during 1919. $125,296.79: underwriting expenses incurred during 1919, $73.233.32: total. $198.-

Its management expenses have been very low, and its

530.11.

Gain from underwriting: during 1919, $125,818.68.

Investment Exhibit, 1919.— Interest, etc., earned during

average loss ratio in recent years has been normal.

Its loss paying reputation is excellent.

The security valuations in this statement are those fixed

1919,   $20.265.09:   profit   on   investments   during   1919,   $9,-

455:   total, $29.720.09.

Loss on investments during 1919, $14.890.30: investment

by the Convention of Insurance Commissioners.

United States Manager.—AY, L. H. Simpson, New York.

Class of Business Britten.— It writes only marine in-

expenses incurred during 1919, $511.75; total. $15,402.05.

surance.

Territory.—It operates throughout the United Kingdom

Gain from investments during 1919, $14,318.04.

Gain and Loss Exhibit,   1919.—Gains:   Underwriting,

and in Canada and the United States.

 

$125,818.6$: investments, $14,318.04;   remitted from Home

 

 

Office, $37.310.58; total, $177,447.30.

INCOME, U. S. BRANCH, 1919.

 

Loss from remittance to Home Office. $111,159 15.

Gross premiums written    

$540,191 84

Surplus. including deposit capital, U. S. Branch, Decem-

Less reinsurance    

127,947 52

ber 31, 1918. $397,664.31:   increase, $66,288.15;   surplus, in-

Less return premiums    

90.006 92

cluding deposit capital. U, S. Branch, December 31, 1919,

 

 

$463,952.46.

 

 

Total net premiums    

$322.237 40

 


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