UNIFORMITY SOUGHT

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 59, 2 December 1933, Page 9

UNIFORMITY SOUGHT

Aviation Insurance Risks NEGOTIATIONS IN HAND The request of the New Zealand Aero Club for modification and uniformity of the provisions in life policies affecting aviation risks is referred to in the annual renort of the club, presented at its annual meeting yesterday. The Tfnort stated that the matter had been taken up with individual companies with a view to getting one at least to give tlie protection desired bv the club, and there had been extensive correspondence on the matter, but so far without any definite result. “In view of the statistics, which clearly show the safety of flying, even under the somewhat disadvantageous conditions at present obtaining in New Zealand,” the report stated, “it is difficult to understand the conservatism of the life insurance companies in declining to modify the restrictions which at present prevent persons from travelling by air who would do so, could they be assured that they were not endangering the protection af-’ forded their dependants under their life insurance policies. It is hoped that a satisfactory arrangement will shortly be made with one of the companies concerned as a result of the negotiations in progress.”