Excerpt from Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, January 1, 1910, Vol. 2: Life, Miscellaneous, Assessment and Fraternal Insurance One of the marked changes in the laws relating to insurance made by the Legislature of the present year was the enactment of the statute providing standard provisions for health and accident poli cies. This act goes into effect J an. 1, 1911, and is substantially like the law enacted in New York the present year. This act is the result of work done by the insurance commissioners of the various States, who, seeing that policies issued by accident companies were in many respects unsatisfactory, determined to draft a bill and offer it for consideration to the Legislatures of their several States. It is expected that many other States besideslnew York and Massachu setts will enact this bill into law, and thus give practical uniform legislation on this question in a very large proportion of the States. This will be in the interest of the companies as well as the policy holders, and is simply a step in the direction of uniform legislation, which should be followed, and doubtless will be followed, by other attempts on the part of the insurance commissioners to pave the way for harmonizing the essential provisions of the insurance laws of the various State-s as far as practicable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.