Oldest Life Insurance Company in the U.S.?

[Markthebroker]

Hunt is my middle name.

I have Hunt cousins... but no one named Mike.

 

[Allen Trent]

As a teen, I used to be the scorekeeper & announcer for men's softball. I used to think it was hilarious when a guy named Jack Huff was involved. Being immatture, I would say Jack Off the batter & Tim Smith on deck.

 

[pfg1]

I worked with a guy many years ago named Jack Knauf. I didn't really know him but the word around the company was he disowned his parents. Parents must have been stoners or just flat stupid. LOL. He was probably 20yrs older than me and I always sorta felt bad for the guy, but I mean he could have changed his name rather than suffer his whole life.

 

[goillini52]

No bs, where I grew up, there was a big family down the street with the last name Hunt. They had a kid named Mike. I'm 100% serious - not joking.

Are you sure you didn'tget that from Bart Simpson?

I remember years ago, Ann Landers had a column and she talked about some of the names people gave there kids. One that I remember was Ima Pigg. Poor girl.

 

[PA Bill]

Didn't Rouse train under Ben Franklin?

 

[shonceman]

Are you sure you didn'tget that from Bart Simpson?

I remember years ago, Ann Landers had a column and she talked about some of the names people gave there kids. One that I remember was Ima Pigg. Poor girl.

Many years ago, when I was a sales manager, I took a call from a client named Fannie Cheeks. I remember hoping that it was her married name, otherwise somebody needed to slap her mama!

 

[Allen Trent]

Toronto Canada scaffolding business named "Mammoth Erection"----be careful if you try to google it

 

[vic120]

They had a couple of firsts. This is from their site.

Manhattan Life Insurance Company, one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the world, was founded in 1850.

We issued the first ever group life insurance contract and issued one of the first life policies to a woman.

don't you love when prospect say But but I never hearrrrrrrd of them

I said to one, she said it with that disgusted voice And she was a real pain anyway, so I couldn't help myself,

That's ok, they never heard of you either

 

[rousemark]

Wasn't Manhattan Life nicknamed "Old Faithful" as they paid out the first Civil War widow's pension (Confederate side, I believe)?

And there was a story just a few years back where a daughter was collecting one of those pensions. She was WAY old and in a nursing home. If I remember correctly, her father was really old, around 70 when she was born, then when he passed the mother got the pension then she did.

It was really low, like maybe $40 a month or less. I'll try and dig it up tomorrow.

"Old Reliable"... They paid claims on Confederate soldiers whose polices had lapsed because they had no way to pay the premiums to the company. Even though the soldier was dead, they reinstated the policy, paid the claim after deducting the past due premiums from the face amount. Can't see any company doing such a thing today... In fact, I really can't see the regulators allowing it..

 

[goillini52]

Didn't Rouse train under Ben Franklin?

I think you got that backwards.