Insurance Hall of Fame
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The Insurance Hall of Fame, occasionally referred to as the International Insurance Hall of Fame,[1] honors exceptional members of the insurance field. It was created in 1957 and is administered by the global nonprofit International Insurance Society (IIS),[2] which was founded in 1965 and is based in New York City.[3]
The Insurance Hall of Fame's museum and portrait gallery at the University of Alabama houses a collection of portraits and memorabilia of the laureates. A multimedia collection of laureate portraits, videos, and biographies are also housed in a gallery at St. John's University in New York City.
Qualification
[edit]To qualify for inclusion in the Insurance Hall of Fame, nominees must be adjudged to have made a lasting contribution to the insurance industry. They also may have shown creative thinking and imaginative actions – starting trends, discovering new products or methods, or uncovering and resolving problems.
Nominees for the Insurance Hall of Fame are submitted by the IIS membership and evaluated for selection by the IIS Honors Committee, a body of senior insurance executives and academics.[4] The nominees are then voted on by the IIS membership by secret ballot, which is tabulated and conducted by an independent auditing firm.[5]
History
[edit]The Insurance Hall of Fame was conceived and organized in 1957 by John S. Bickley, who was then professor of insurance at Ohio State University.[6][7] It was sponsored by the Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education, which had its headquarters on the OSU campus.[6][7] The Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1947 at Ohio State University in memory of a young Columbus, Ohio insurance agent, Charles W. Griffith, who was killed in World War II;[8][9] the foundation was affiliated with OSU until 1992.[8]
Bickley, who continued to spearhead the Insurance Hall of Fame as its Chairman, later moved to the University of Texas, and then to the University of Alabama, where he had started his academic career.[6][10]
In 1965 the Insurance Hall of Fame became international, appointing electors from 32 countries and voting on candidates from anywhere in the world.[6][7] That year Bickley founded the International Insurance Society (IIS), based in New York City, as a forum where people involved in insurance could share their ideas and interests.[10][11] The IIS encourages networking, academic pursuits, and education; it sponsors annual meetings, and funds research projects and awards.[12][13] A committee of insurance industry leaders at IIS annually elects the inductees to the Insurance Hall of Fame – those who have made notable contributions to the insurance industry worldwide.[10] As of 2019 the IIS includes electors from over 90 countries.[14]
In 1987 the Insurance Hall of Fame's museum and portrait gallery moved to the University of Alabama, where Bickley taught.[10] Space at the New York City-based International Insurance Society is too limited to display any but the current year's inductees.[10] By 2010 the museum in Alabama had drawn over 250,000 visitors.[15] The facility includes a portrait gallery of inductees through the years, a museum of insurance, and a lecture hall.[10][16][14][17]
In 2003 an additional gallery was opened at St. John's University in New York City, which hosts a multimedia collection of laureate portraits, videos, and biographies.[14][17][18] In 2004 the Insurance Hall of Fame launched its website, with lists and profiles of all inductees since its inception.[17]
Insurance Hall of Fame laureates
[edit]Data is from Insurance Hall of Fame Laureates by Year of Induction Archived 2019-04-03 at the Wayback Machine.
1950s
[edit]1957
[edit]- Elizur Wright - USA
- Solomon S. Huebner - USA
- Benjamin Franklin - USA
1958
[edit]- Charles Evans Hughes - USA
- Ralph H. Blanchard - USA
1959
[edit]- Frederick H. Ecker - USA
- Albert F. Dean - USA
1960s
[edit]1960
[edit]- M. Albert Linton - USA
- John A. Diemand, Sr. - USA
1961
[edit]- Clarence Arthur Kulp - USA
- Louis I. Dublin - USA
1962
[edit]- John Marshall Holcombe, Jr. - USA
- Alfred M. Best - USA
1963
[edit]- Julian S. Myrick - USA
- Sheppard Homans - USA
1964
[edit]- William Leslie, Sr. - USA
1965
[edit]- Ernst Froelich - Switzerland
- Haley Fiske - USA
- James Dodson - United Kingdom
- Johan DeWitt - Netherlands
- James G. Batterson - USA
- Nicholas Barbon - United Kingdom
1966
[edit]- Alfred Manes - Germany
- Holgar J. Johnson - USA
- Cuthbert Eden Heath - United Kingdom
1967
[edit]- William David Winter - USA
- Georges Tattevin - France
- Edmond Halley - United Kingdom
- Alfred N. Guertin - USA
- Leighton Foster - Canada
1968
[edit]- Arthur Hunter - USA
- Joseph Arnould - India
- Zachariah Allen - USA
1969
[edit]- Charles J. Zimmerman - USA
- Harry J. Loman - USA
- Max E. Eisenring - Switzerland
1970s
[edit]1970
[edit]- Tsuneta Yano - Japan
- James Scott Kemper, Sr. - USA
- Kenkichi Kagami - Japan
- Hendon Chubb - USA
- John Julius Angerstein - United Kingdom
1971
[edit]- John F. Dryden - USA
- Paul F. Clark - USA
- Alois Alzheimer - Germany
1972
[edit]- David McCahan - USA
- Walter Arnold Dinsdale - United Kingdom
1973
[edit]- Maurice Picard - France
- Albert Henry Mowbray - USA
1974
[edit]- Richard Price - United Kingdom
- Cecil Edward Golding - United Kingdom
- Harald Cramer - Sweden
- Eugenio Artom - Italy
1975
[edit]- Cornelius V. Starr - USA
- Murray D. Lincoln - USA
- J. Roger Hull - USA
- Jacques Basyn - Belgium
1976
[edit]- Otto von Bismarck - Germany
- Edwin W. Patterson - USA
- Gen Hirose - Japan
1978
[edit]- Taizo Abe - Japan
1979
[edit]- Herbert W. Heinrich - USA
- Henry S. Beers - USA
1980s
[edit]1980
[edit]- Joseph B. Maclean - USA
- Andre Besson - France
1981
[edit]- Antigono Donati - Italy
1982
[edit]- Haruo Murase - Japan
1983
[edit]- Ikunoshin Kadono - Japan
1984
[edit]- B. K. Shah - India
- Benjamin Rush - USA
1985
[edit]- S. Bruce Black - USA
1986
[edit]- Robert E. Dineen - USA
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert - France
1987
[edit]- Victor Dover - United Kingdom
- Jorge Bande - Chile
1988
[edit]- Alex Möller - Germany
- John S. Bickley - USA
- Robert A. Beck - USA
1989
[edit]- Edwin S. Overman - USA
- Maurice R. Greenberg - USA
1990s
[edit]1990
[edit]- Douglas A. Barlow - Canada
1991
[edit]- Alfred H. Pollard - Australia
- Horst K. Jannott - Germany
1992
[edit]- John E. Fisher - USA
1993
[edit]- C. Arthur Williams - USA
- Kenneth Black - USA
1994
[edit]- Davis W. Gregg - USA
1995
[edit]- Ronald M. Hubbs - USA
- Willem de Wit - Netherlands
1996
[edit]- Yong Ho Shin - South Korea
- Robert F. McDermott - USA
1997
[edit]- Alfonso Yuchengco - Philippines
- Saburo Kawai - Japan
1998
[edit]- Thomas Bassett Macaulay - Canada
- José Maria De Delas Y Miralles - Spain
- Hans Bühlmann - Switzerland
1999
[edit]- George J. Mecherle - USA
- Edwin A. G. Manton - USA
- Claude Bébéar - France
2000s
[edit]2000
[edit]- Jose Pinera - Chile
- Hans Gerling - Germany
2001
[edit]- Josei Itoh - Japan
- Leo Goodwin, Sr. - USA
- James C. H. Anderson - USA
2002
[edit]- Lutgart Van den Berghe - Belgium
- Aad Jacobs - Netherlands
- Edison L. Bowers - USA
2003
[edit]- Edmund Tse - Hong Kong
- Clemente Cabello P. - Mexico
2004
[edit]- Kees J. Storm - Netherlands
- Takeo Inokuchi - Japan
- Per M. Hansson - Norway
2005
[edit]- William Meredith - Canada
- Walter Kielholz - Switzerland
- Ignacio Hernando de Larramendi - Spain
2006
[edit]- Siegfried Sellitsch - Austria
- Orio Giarini - Italy
2007
[edit]- Frederic Reiss - Bermuda
- José Manuel Martínez - Spain
- Robert Clements - USA
2008
[edit]- Patrick G. Ryan - USA
- Professor G. S. Diwan - India
- Dominic D'Alessandro - Canada
2009
[edit]- Sir David Rowland - United Kingdom
- Jack Byrne - USA
2010s
[edit]2010
[edit]- Frank O'Halloran - Australia
- William C. Greenough - USA
2011
[edit]- Brian Duperreault - USA
- Guy Carpenter - USA
2012
[edit]- Ikuo Uno - Japan
- Manuel Povoas - Brazil
2013
[edit]- Robert Benmosche - USA
2014
[edit]- Robert Kiln - United Kingdom
- Denis Kessler - France
2015
[edit]- Stephen Catlin - United Kingdom
2016
[edit]- Donald Kramer - USA
2017
[edit]- Nikolaus von Bomhard - Germany
2018
[edit]- Shuzo Sumi - Japan
2019
[edit]- Michael A. Butt - Bermuda
2021
[edit]- Greig Woodring - USA
2022
- Larry Zimpleman - USA
2023
- Chang-Jae Shin - South Korea
References
[edit]- ^ College of Commerce conference series. Ohio State University, College of Commerce and Administration.
- ^ "Home". International Insurance Society. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ Hays, Daniel (January 13, 2010). "QBE's CEO O'Halloran Named To Insurance Hall Of Fame". National Underwriters. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ "AXIS Capital Chairman Michael Butt Inducted into the Insurance Hall of Fame". Barron's. January 3, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ Hofmann, Mark A. (December 3, 2013). "Five industry leaders nominated for 2014 Insurance Hall of Fame". Business Insurance. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ a b c d Reinmuth, Dennis F.; Lewis, David L. (March 1971). "The Insurance Hall of Fame". The Journal of Risk and Insurance. 38 (1): 61–69. doi:10.2307/251088. JSTOR 251088.
- ^ a b c Reinmuth, Dennis F.; Lewis, David L. (June 1970). "The Case of the Missing Insurance Entrepreneur". The Journal of Risk and Insurance. 37 (2): 297–299. doi:10.2307/251191. JSTOR 251191.
- ^ a b "About The Griffith Foundation". ARIA News. 4 (2). American Risk and Insurance Association: 3–5. Fall 1999. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.387.1564.
- ^ "A Brief History". GriffithFoundation.org. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f Rupinski, Patrick (December 15, 2013). "University of Alabama houses little-known insurance museum, gallery". Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ "Denis Kessler has been elected by the Members of the International Insurance Society to join the Insurance Hall of Fame in 2014". SCOR SE. January 29, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ "International Insurance Society". JWTerrill.com. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
- ^ "Glossary (A-K)". Insurance Brokers of Minnesota. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Hall of Fame Museum & Lecture Hall". Culverhouse College of Business. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ "Cowboys, croquet, insurance in U.S. halls of fame". Reuters. April 16, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ "The Halls Of Fame That Aren't So Famous". NPR. December 29, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ a b c "… And Now Online, the Insurance Hall of Fame". Insurance Journal. September 2, 2004. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ "Tse, Cabello Named To IIS Insurance Hall Of Fame". National Underwriter. July 8, 2003. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Insurance Hall of Fame at Vimeo
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