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Transcript of Fire Insurance
*PRESENTATION*
PRESENTED TO:-
PROF.KHURSHEED AHMED
PRESENTED BY:-
IQRA HAFEEZ
(Mi12BBA014)
FIRE INSURANCE
INTRODUCTION
• INSURANCE:-INSURANCE IS THAT EQUITABLE
TRANSFER
OF RISK OF LOSS,FROM ONE PERSON TO
ANOTHER IN EXCHANGE FOR PAYMENT.
FIRE INSURANCE:-
• FIRE INSURANCE IS USED TO COVER DAMAGE TO A PROPERTY CAUSED BY FIRE
• “BASICALLY THE NATURE OF FIRE INSURANCE IS PROPERTY INSURANCE.”
HISTORY OF FIRE INSURANCE
• FIRE insurance - as we know it today - can be traced to the Great Fire of London of 1666 that ravaged London from Sunday, 2 to Wednesday, 5 September.
• The Great Fire cost London an estimated £10million, at a time when its annual income was just £12,000.
Nicholas Barbon's Fire Office 1680
Friendly Society 1683
Hand-in-Hand 1696
• LATER ON Charleston residents 1735 - 1741
JOINT STOCK COMPANY
• IN NORTH AMERICA 1792
• BY 1810 MORE THAN 70 INSURANCE CO. CHARTERED IN U.S.A
CHICAGO FIRES1871 - 1959
GREAT CHICAGO FIRE 9,10 OCT 1871
DESTROYED 2000 ACRES TOTAL LOSS 90-100 M$ INSURANCE CO. 200 BANKRUPT 68
IN PRESENT ERA
EARLY IN 1960 THE GOVT.SECTORS PROVIDE THIS INSURANCE.
SOUTHSIDE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN GEORGIA 1961.
CONCLUSION
• To make a long story short, Preventing fire losses has always been more important to the insured than to the insurer. Although a particular fireloss may not be statistically significant to an insurance company, to the owner involved such a loss is not only a direct financial issue but it also impacts many otherimportant business aspects, such as employee moral,access to suppliers and the economic health of thecommunity.