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San Francisco claims paid.


The September September: see month.  1906 issue of Best's Review reported that nearly three-fourths of the insurance losses from the Great San Francisco Earthquake San Francisco earthquake

disaster claiming many lives and most of city (1906). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 443–444]

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 and Fire had been adjusted and paid. An estimation estimation

In mathematics, use of a function or formula to derive a solution or make a prediction. Unlike approximation, it has precise connotations. In statistics, for example, it connotes the careful selection and testing of a function called an estimator.
 of total losses at the time was around $150 million, noting that many of the larger companies had completed their adjustments and payments. The magazine commended the work of the "Committee of Five," a group of five people appointed to represent 35 insurance companies. This committee documented much of the work done by these insurance companies in the wake of the earthquake and fire. Best's Review also promised its subscribers "a list classifying the various companies involved at San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  with reference to the treatment of claimants," as soon as final and indisputable evidence had been filed.
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Title Annotation:100 YEARS AGO in Best's Review
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Date:Sep 1, 2006
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