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fraternal insurance

American  

noun

  1. insurance underwritten by a fraternal society, under either a legal reserve plan or an assessment plan.


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In 1883 one Joseph Cullen Root of Lyons, Iowa, tired of his State-restricted fraternal insurance society, the V.A.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the railroad workers' need for insurance the first rail unions had their beginnings, as fraternal insurance societies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Morris Sheppard of Texarcana, Tex., is, as he says, "Sovereign Banker, or National Treasurer" of the Woodmen of the World, "the second largest fraternal insurance order in the United States."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a tuberculosis hospital built in 1928 under a strange arrangement between the state and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a fraternal insurance company.

From Time Magazine Archive

You see, there ain't nothing left as it is, but if we fixed it that way there'd be the fraternal insurance to take care of the missus, and she wouldn't never know.

From The Night Operator by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)