History of the Loss Adjusting Profession Part 1. Evolution and Early Development. *** ISBN 0 906782 18 X

Contents

Plates
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter I Introduction to Adjusters
Chapter II After the Great Fire
Chapter III The Spur of Experience
Chapter IV Regulating the Claim
Chapter V Moveable Goods Require New Claims Procedures
Chapter VI Adjustment of Eighteenth-Century Claims
ChapterVII Further Eighteenth-Centry Claims Adjustments
Chapter VIII The Old Order Trembles
Chapter IX Churchwardens in Action
Chapter X Convert to the Old Regime
Chapter XI Relief for the Churchwardens
Chapter XII Independant Surveyors of Risks Assess Building Claims
Chapter XIII Losses to Contents of Buildings: the Crucial Role of Agents
Chapter XIV Trials and Disorders of the Fire Insurance World
Chapter XV Perils of Learning by Experience
Chapter XVI The Select Parliamentary Committee on Fire Protection - 1867
Chapter XVII Extracts from the Evidence about Fires from Unknown Causes - 1867
Chapter XVIII Evience of the Less COnvinced Witnesses and Final Recommendations - 1867
Chapter XIX The Quiet Revolution
Chapter XX Identification of Approved Assessors in 1873
Chapter XXI Gradual Selection of the Fittest
Chapter XXII Notes on Foreign and Colonial Developments
Chapter XXIII The Fruits of Collaboration
Chapter XXIV Assessors' Burdens in the New Century
Chapter XXV The Great War Period and After

Appendices A Lists of Valuers and Assessors - 1872-3
B Assessors' Report - 1882
C Assessors' Salvage Sale - 1885
D Directory of Assessors - 1920

Source Notes
Index - Adjusters, Assesors etc, 1790 to 1920
General Index