Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office ( Amicable Society) is considered the first life insurance company in the world. It was acquired by Norwich Union Life Insurance Society in 1866, this required an act of Parliament.
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- Amicable Society, The charters, acts of Parliament, and by-laws of the corporation of the Amicable Society for a perpetual assurance office, Gilbert and Rivington, 1854
- Anzovin, Steven, Famous First Facts 2000, item # 2422, H. W. Wilson Company,
- Baynes, Thomas Spencer, The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature, Volume 13, H.G. Allen, 1888
- Price, Richard, Observations on reversionary payments: on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on the method of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on the national debt, T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1812