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FILE NAME: Insurance Industry (INS) DATE: 0000 DOC#: INS058 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Barry Castleman Notes on Employers Mutual Employers Mutual 1. Saranac documents - EM (Keuchle) was involved in financing of Saranac and publication/distribution of Saranac symposia in the 1930s; Keuchle attended the Seventh Saranac Symposium in 1952 (see also pp 91-94 of 4th edition). 2. EM documents include attendance at Industrial Commission of Wisconsin conference in 1932 where the first definite report of asbestosis in an insulation worker was presented. EM had a display on occupational diseases where a presentation published in National Underwriter in 1943 was made, speaking generally about occ. diseases. Is EM the same as "Employers Liability Assurance Corp."? If so, their guy was on the editorial board of Industrial Medicine in 1936 and probably other years. EG Meiter of "Employers Mutuals" was listed as one of the attendees at the founding meeting of the Amer. Industr. Hygiene Assn. In 1939 (the corporate I.H. professional group). 3. Some insurance industry articles show the industry' advanced awareness of asbestos hazards (see also pp 774-777 in 4th Ed.)