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Premiums and annuity considerations were .
$1,568,800,717.74
Earnings from investments (after investment ex penses and $22,406,756.24 Federal Income Tax) were.............................................................................
327,992,025.61
TOTAL
$1,896,792,743.35
We paid to Policyholders and Beneficiaries:
Death benefits....................................................... $ 335,587,961.54
Accident and Health (incl. Disability) benefits
159,879,398.69
Matured endowments............................................
109,077,408.64
Surrender benefits..................................................
111,335,947.62
Annuity benefits............................................
36,421,818.29
Dividends on policies............................................
192,312,899.00
Total....................................................................... $ 944,615,433.78
We paid for health and welfare work for policy holders and the public............................................ $
7,656.339.56
We set aside for the benefit of policyholders and beneficiaries*............................................................ $ 636,951,483.79
Total Paid or Set Aside for Policyholders and Beneficiaries . . . $1,589,223,257.13
We required for operating expenses of the Company:
For Field service to policyholders and for obtaining new insurance $ 184,518,412.41
For serytcp to policyholders, at the Home Office and at Head OfficoT_.................................................................................................. $
83,479,635.21
We required for payment of taxes (other than Federal Income Tax and other investment taxes).............................................................................$
31,145,071.66
Miscellaneous Asset Changes................................................. .....
$ 8,426,366.94
TOTAL.................................................................................................. $1,896,792,743J5
'Of the S616.9S1.483.79 tel aside for the benefit of policyholders and beneficiaries, $605,060,183.23 was the net increase in Statutory Reserves and other policy obligations, and $31,891,300.56 was the increase in Surplus Funds.
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.' ... :\ \JsCIn accordance TOth the Annua] Statement filed with
Bonds ............................................................................. U. S. Government....................................................... Canadian Government............................................ Provincial and Municipal............................................ Railroad....................................................................... Public Utility............................................................ Industrial and Miscellaneous.................................
..................................................... $j,i2*,.0,J
$1,844,608,305.55 143,537,746.75 66,051,^54.87 660,243,225.66
1,514241,381.02 3,767,863,111.01
Stocks .................................................................................................................. All but $18,064,177.72 are preferred or guaranteed.
177,509,022.72
Mortgage Loans on Real Estate.................................................................
On urban properties....................................................... $1,914,495,597.64
On farms.......................................................................
161,582,149.54
2,076,077,747.18
Real Estate (after decrease by adjustment of $1,900,000 in the aggregate)
Housing projects and other real estate acquired for
investment ............................................................ $ 391,638,408.63
Properties forCompany use........................................
46,718,864.57
Acquired in satisfaction of mortgage indebtedness
(of which $2,059,121.24 is under contract of
sale) .......................................................................
2,600,936.44
439,058,209.64
Loans on Policies ............................................................................................ Made to policyholders on the security of their policies.
465,211,481.47
Cash and Bank Deposits..................................................................................
175,519,891.02
Premiums, Deferred and in Course of Collection................................
161,709,504.12
Accrued Interest, Rents, etc.................................................................................
100,898,064.65
TOTAL ASSETS TO MEET OBLIGATIONS........................................... $11,592,529,045.66
Assets exceed Obligations by $664,727,554.32 -- the amount of th< serve as a reserve against unforeseen contingencies and give eati:
NOTE.--Assets amounting to S3S3.449.4W65 are deposited with vgrinu
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OBLIGATIONS TO POLICYHOLDERS, BENEFICIARIES, AND OTHERS
Statutory Policy Reserves...........................
............................................ 19.856,893,709.00
This amount, required by law, together with future premiums and inter
est, is necessary to assure payment of future policy benefits.
Policy Proceeds and Dividends Left with Company at Interest . . . Funds left with the Company by beneficiaries and policyholders to be paid to them later.
653.976.566.00
Reserved for Dividends to Policyholders....................................................... Set aside for payment in 19S3 to those policyholders eligible to receive them.
181.782.277.00
Policy Claims Currently Outstanding............................................................ Claims in process of settlement, and estimated claims that have occurred but have not yet been reported.
55,011.011.17
Other Policy Obligations.................................................................................. Including premiums received in advance and special reserves for mortal ity and morbidity fluctuations.
Taxes Accrued (payable in 1933).................................................................
76.947,311.14 47.012,225.46
Security Valuation Reserve............................................................................ Prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
23,176,699.00
Contingency Reserve for Mortgage Leant.................................................
7.150,000.00
All Other Obligations.......................................................................................
25.851.692.57
TOTAL OBLIGATIONS.................................................................................. S10.927.80l,491.34
~ ` SURPLUS FUNDS Special Surplus Funds...................................................... SI06,783.000.00
Unassigned Surplus............................................................ 557,944.554.32
TOTAL SURPLUS FUNDS............................................................................
664.727.554.32
TOTAL OBLIGATIONS AND SURPLUS FUNDS................................. $11,592,529,045.66
Surplus Funds. These funds, representing 6.1 percent of the obligations, tssursnce ttul nil policy benefits will be paid in full as (hey fall due.
;udmv xfitiels under the rrtjtjirtmtnij o< taw or revelatory authority.
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LEROY A. LINCOLN Chairman of the Board
FREDERICK H. ECKER Honorary Chairman of the Board
FREDERIC W. ECKER Eztcutive Vice-President
HARRY C. HAGERTY Financial Vice-President
SAMUEL MILLIGAN Administrative Vice-President
Accident and Health ihnouii Raymond F. Killion, Third Vice-President
Accounting and Auditing Joseph J. Cute, Controller
Actuarial MALYtN E. Davis, Vice-President and Actuary (Personal Insurance) Reinhard A. Hohaus, Vice-President and Actuary (Croup) George V. Brady, Actuary Frederic P. Chapman, Associate Actuary Joseph A. Christman, Associate Actuary Joseph T. Gannon, Associate Actuary Harold A. Lachner, Associate Actuary Ed'yard A. Lew, Associate Actuary and Statistician Charles A. Siegfried, Associate Actuary Herbert J. Starr. Associate Actuary
Claims John B. Northrop, Third Vice-President
Coordination James L. Madden, Second Vice-President
Investments
aends, Stocks sad Raalclae
Eugene A. Schmidt, Jr., Treasurer Arnold R. La Force, Second Vice-President H. Hugh McConnell, Second Vice-President Walter H. Saunoers, Second Vice-President Lawrence Washington, Third Vice-President. Bankint Chj Mamaeer Norman Carpenter. Second Vice-President Louis G. Buisson, Third Vice-President Fara Manpiu Glenn E. Rogers, Second Vice-President Hoodie Prokctr Frank C. Lowe, Third Vice-President
Law
Joseph H. Collins, General Counsel Churchill Rodgers, General Counsel Byron Clayton, Associate General Counsel1 J. Edwin Dowling, Associate General Counsel Roland Maycocr. Associate General CounstT George E. Walton, Associate General Counsel
Medical
EarlC. Bonnett, MU., Medical Director Haynes H. Fellows, M.D., Associate Medical Director Joseph C. Horan, M U., Associate Medical Director Alrert O. Jimenis, M.D,, Associate Medical Director
Economist
Ordinary and Industrial Insurance
William A. Berridge, Ph D., Economist
Francis M. Smith, Vice-President
Field Management
Ordtivji Insvruet
Douglas S. Craig, Second Vice-President James S. Burke, Third Vice-President
Cecil J. North, Vice-President Reginald R. Lawrence, Second Vice-President
Ransom H. House, Third Vice-President Rickard E. O'Keefe, Third Vice-President
Walter S. J. Shepherd, Second Vice-President and Field Personnel Officer
IsdsctHsI lanrun
John C. Timmeimann, Third Vice-President
Austin T. Schussler, Chairman of the
Superintendents of Agencies Emile P. Arnautou, Superintendent of Agencies Charles E. Creaoh, Superintendent of Agencies Milton O. Culpepper, Superintendent of Agencies George J. Fullman, Superintendent of Agencies Wilbur W. Hartshorn, Superintendent of Agencies Fulton W. Jenrins, Superintendent of Agencies A. Rogers Maynard, Superintendent of Agencies Clifton E. Reynolds, Superintendent of Agencies Samuel D. Risley, Superintendent of Agencies G. Hoyle Wright, Superintendent of Agencies
_jJCarl H. Kreder, Third Vice-President
Personnel (Hom oc*> Hejuert L. Rhoades, Third Vice-President ond Personnel Officer
Secretary William J. Barrett, Secretary
Statistical Edward A. Lew, Associate Actuary and Statistician
Pacific Coast Head Office
"Group Insurance
-- Alexander C. Campbell, Vice-President Edwin C. McDonald, Second Vice-President, Group Sates Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, Third Vice-President, Group Sates John J. Sutter, Third Vice-President, Group Administration
Henry E. North, Vice-President in Charge Arnold B. Brown, Third Vice-President
- and Assistant Resident Manager
Louis J. Schmoll, Third Vice-President William P. Shepard, M.D., Third Vice-President,
Heahh and Welfare
Julius 0. Klein, Superintendent of Agencies C. Coleman Berwick, M.D., Associate Medical Director
Health and Welfare
Donald B. Armstrong, M.D., Second Vice-President George M. Wheatley, M.D., Third Vice-President
Canadian Head Office
Glen J. Spahn, Second Vice-President in Charge William D. McKewen, Third Vice-President
Insurance Relations
and Assistant' General Manager Freeman D. Smith, Superintendent of Agencies
Charles G. Dougherty, Second Vice-President
Wallace Troup, M.D., Associate Medical Director
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LEROY A. LINCOLN, Chairman FREDERICK H. ECKER, Honorary Chairman
Langdon P. Marvin, New York, N. Y. Emmet, Marvin it Martin, Attorney* at Law
Jeremiah Milbank. New York, N. Y. Millbank it Company
D'Alton Corrv Coleman, Montreal, Can. Director, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
George McAneny, New York. N. Y. Trustee. Title Guarantee it Trust Company
Robert V. Fleming. Washington, D. C. President it Chairman of the Board. The Riggs National Bank
William W. Crocker. San Francisco, Cali^. Chairman of the Board, Crocker First Natioaal Bank of San Francisco
John I. Downey, New York, N. Y. Vice-Chairman of the Board, The Bank of New York
James H. Douglas, Jr.. Chicago, III. Gardner, Carton it Douglas, Attorneys at Law
Charles G. Taylor, Jr., New York, N. Y. President. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Edward H. Butler. Buffalo, N. Y. Editor & Publisher, Buffalo Evening News. Inc.
Frederic W. Ecker. New York, N. Y. Executive Vice-President, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Gale F. Johnston, Sl Louis. Mo.
President, Mercantile Trust Company
Amory Houghton. Coming. N. Y. Chairman of the Board. Coming Glass Works
Ernest E. Norris, Washington, D. C. Chairman of ttierBoard, Southern Railway Company
Phiup D. Reed, New York. N. Y. Chairman of the Board. General Electric Company
Juan T. Trippe, New York, N. Y. President Pan American World Airways System
Harry C. Hagerty, New York, N. Y. Financial Vice-President, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Robert W. Woodruff, Atlanta, Georgia Chairman. Executive Committee, The Coca-Cola Company _
J. Wilbur Lewis. New York. N. Y. President. Union Dime Savings Bank
Robert L. Hamill, New York, N. Y. Partner, Sanderson & Porter
Webster B. Togo. New York, N. Y.
Chairman, Executive Committee. Equity Corporation
John J. McCloy, New York, N, Y.
Chairman Board of Directors. The Chase National Bank of New York
Some High Lights
Payments to Policyholders and Beneficiaries For 1952
Ordinary......................................................... $ Industrial......................................................... Group (excluding Accident and Health) . . Accident and Health..........................................
356,957,416 253,721,306 171,548,161 162,388,551
TOTAL.................................................... $
944,615,434
Life Insurance in Force on December 31, 1952
Ordinary..............................................................$24,614,678,844 Industrial......................................................... 10,964,213,241 Group............................................................... 16,275,369,369
TOTAL.................................................... $51,854,261,454
Accident and Health Insurance in Force on December 31, 1952
Principal Sum Benefits amounted to $5,310,385,512 and Weekly Benefits to $95,480,185. In addition, more than 4,900,000 persons were protected by Hospital, Surgical and Medical Expense Benefits under Group and individual policies.
New Life Insurance Issued During 1952
Ordinary......................................................... $ 2,199,468,108
Industrial.........................................................
769,037,125
Group .
. .................................................
621,935,293
TOTAL.................................................... S 3,590,440,526
Number of new Ordinary and Industrial Life insurance policies issued .
2,170,475
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