The Company OF the People, FOR the People-made BY the People The Greatest Life Insurance Company in the World. In Assets Greatest In Business Placed In Business in Force In Service to the Public and Greatest In Health and Welfare Work METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (INCORPORATED BY THE State of new YORK) HALEY FISKE, President Assets FREDERICK H. ECKER, Vice-President Business Statement, December 31, 1921 .$1,115,583,024.54 $134,669,937.87 Larger than those of any other Insurance Company in the World. Increase in Assets during 1921... Larger than that of any other Insurance Company in the World. Liabilities $1,068,341,845.04 Surplus $47,241,179,50 Ordinary (annual premium) Life Insurance paid for in 1921...$897,940,212 More than has ever been placed in one year by any other Company in the World Industrial (weekly premium) Insurance paid for in 1921...$666,840,395 Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1921...... $1,564,789,607 A larger amount placed in one year than by any other Company in the World. Gain in Insurance in Force in 1921.. .$625,695,325 A larger gain in one year than that made by any other Insurance Company in the World. Total Amount of Outstanding Insurance.. Larger than that of any other Company in the world. Number of Policies in Force December 31, 1921... Larger than that of any other Company in America. Gain in Number of Outstanding Policies. $7,005,707,839 ... .25,542,422 1,642,425 323,531 Averaging one claim paid for every 27 seconds of each business day of 8 hours. Amount paid to Policy-holders in 1921.... .$91,848,472.98 Payments to policy-holders averaged $630.16 a minute of each business day of 8 hours. Reduction in Industrial mortality in 10 years, 31.9 per cent. Typhoid Fever reduction, 71 per cent.; Tuberculosis, 49 per cent.; Heart discase, 19 per cent.; Bright's disease, nearly 49 per cent.; Infectious diseases of children, nearly 37 per cent. Death Rate for 1921 on the Industrial business lowest in history of Company Dividends declared payable in 1922, nearly.... .$16,000,000 Metropolitan Nurses made 2,136,000 visits in 1921, free of charge, to sick Industrial Policy-holders, including 18,984 visits to persons insured under Group policies. Metropolitan men distributed over Twenty-five Millions of pieces of literature on health Bringing the total distribution to over 238,000,000 exclusive of Company's Please mention THE AMERICAN Church Monthly when answering Advertisements |