FREE INSURANCE SCHEME

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21510, 27 June 1935, Page 12

FREE INSURANCE SCHEME

"The Press" Accident Policies FINANCIAL SAFEGUARD FOR READERS A liberal accident .insurance coverage is offered to readers of "The Press" through the scheme to be brought into operation from the beginning of next week. The pro taction is perfectly free and there are no financial obligations on the subscriber apart from the ordinary subscription to the paper of ninor pence a week. Cash benefits, amounting to as much as £2OOO m resDect of one person, are included in the liberal scale of compensation payments, which cover many types of common accidents, causing death and injury. The scheme is backed by the London and L.ancashire Insurance Company, Ltd., operating through its local a S C;r \ ts > Messrs Pyne, Gould Guinness, Ltd. The benefits of the scheme are extended to the wife or husband of a registered reader, so that both heads of a subscribing family are covered by 'The Press" policy. J-he necessary registration forms are contained in advertisements appearing m "The Press," and all subscribers and intending subscribers are advised to send in their names as roon as possible so as to secure protection from the earliest moment. Full details of the scheme are given in the advertisements which appeared last Saturday and Monday, and the conditions are set out for the information of readers.

Many Cash Benefits Some •of the benefits available under the free insurance scheme are given below:— X.2000 will be paid for death by accident to a railway passenger train, £IOO9 for death by the wrecking of a passenger steamer of an established line operating between New Zealand ports, and X. 1000 for death by accident to a passenger lift in which the reader is travelling as a passenger. \1250 if the accident involves a steam, electric, cable, or horse tramway ear, or an omnibus, cab motorcar, or ferry boat (imevery case plying for hire and driven by a licensed driver). .V,250 will be paid to readers involved in any of these accidents who lose both arms, or both Jog!;, or an arm and a leg, or who lose irrevocably the . i/.!ht of both eyes. tlf>9 is set down for payment if a reader is killed by being struck or run over while walking or standing in or on a public highway by any public or private vehicle. if the reader is accidentally drowned while, as a pastime, boating on or bathing in the sea at any seaside resort, or in any river or public swimming bath. (See conditions in advertisement.) Ai 150 if the reader is killed by accident while taking part as an amateur in any game of football, cricket, golf, tennis, hockey, or lacrosse on any recognised playing ground. (See conditions in advertisement.) &250 if the reader is killed or dies as the direct result of injuries received by reason of the burning of the building in which he or she resides or works. «. .