Accident Insurance

Madrid's move to freeze most pensions this year—as part of a package of austerity measures— and to change the way accident-insurance funds are accounted for will boost the social security surplus by nearly €1.8 billion $2.5 billion this year, a spokeswoman said. ❋ Jonathan House (2011)

Safety measures, accident-insurance and their attendant rights have created a juridical concept of the worker and have given it substantive meaning, so that the mere fact that someone is a worker, has by itself certain legal consequences. ❋ Georg Simmel (1956)

Ever since I have been a director in an accident-insurance company I have felt that I am a better man. ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)

"If I was an accident-insurance company's actuary, I would take a chance and leave such a cause of death out of my calculations," Abe agreed. ❋ Montague Glass (1905)

The reason why we come to you today only with an accident-insurance law is because this branch of the care of the poor and the weak was especially vigorous even before I seriously concerned myself with such matters. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)

There is nobody around to answer questions or to issue accident-insurance policies and the naked heathen attendants talk no language that you know. ❋ William Eleroy Curtis (1880)

Basil would have eked out the business of checking the trunks into an affair of some length, but the baggage-master did his duty with pitiless celerity; and so Basil, in the mere excess of his disoccupation, bought an accident-insurance ticket. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

a director in an accident-insurance company I have felt that I am a better man. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)