WEBINAR - The beginnings of Fire Insurance: the 17th and early 18th century fire insurance companies , 11th July '24 at 10am

Fire insurance was introduced by a property developer, just after the Great Fire of London. Dr Nicolas Barbon set up a scheme to cover his own business to protect it from fire, but soon extended the idea to extend it to anyone who owned a building. It was an immediate success. Join Howard Benge, Director of the Insurance Museum, to find out why was it so successful, what were his innovations and what happened in the years that followed.

Learning Objectives

The talk will include unstructured CPD that will include the learning objectives:

• Gain an understanding of how fire insurance first developed in the late 1600s
• Gain a knowledge of 17^th century fire risks, and how insurance companies worked to minimise the risk and impact

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