Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Vol. 1: January 1, 1870; Fire and Marine Insurance It may be mentioned in this connection, that the insurance statistics of other States, so far as they have been available to the Commissioner, indicate about the same ratios of failure among Companies organized in these two classes. In this respect the record of Massachusetts does not disclose a greater degree of disaster, than that of other States and countries. Rather does it present, as a whole, a much more favorable aspect than some which might be cited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Abstracts of returns of insurance companies were previously published by the secretary of the commonwealth.