Such assistance, if widespread, becomes burial insurance for this major manufacturing sector.
It sold one product in the beginning, burial insurance.
Companies specializing in burial insurance charge higher rates, experts say, because their costs are higher.
Yet many around here say they would never think of buying anything but burial insurance.
The most popular form of insurance - burial insurance - was, however, almost universal.
The weekly contribution for burial insurance was 1 d.
Industrial assurance began in the 1850s as an entrepreneurial response to the need for working-class burial insurance.
The Glicks didn't have no more money than anyone else, and who puts burial insurance on kids?
For participating in the study, the men were given free medical care, meals, and free burial insurance.
He found out he didn't, but now, at 68, who's going to give him burial insurance?