Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
by andyjohnson0 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:17AM
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> Later, insurance companies hired brigades to only put out fires on insured properties.
In some parts of the world, insured properties were marked with metal plaques (generically termed "Fire Insurance Marks" [1]) bearing the insurer's symbol/logo. This enabled the insurer's firefighting service to verify that they should protect the building. I've occasionally seen them on old buildings here in the UK. One I remember was a stylised representation of the sun, denoting The Sun Fire Office - which was founded in the 1700s and still exists as RSA Group plc.
In some parts of the world, insured properties were marked with metal plaques (generically termed "Fire Insurance Marks" [1]) bearing the insurer's symbol/logo. This enabled the insurer's firefighting service to verify that they should protect the building. I've occasionally seen them on old buildings here in the UK. One I remember was a stylised representation of the sun, denoting The Sun Fire Office - which was founded in the 1700s and still exists as RSA Group plc.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_insurance_mark