‘INSURANCE COMPANIES’ EFFICIENCY MAY NOT BE ACHIEVED BY STATE’
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A serious doubt whether the Government monopoly workers’ compensation insurance could be achieved overnight to render the service as promptly and as efficiently as was at present given by the insurance companies was expressed by the chairman of the South British Company, Mr Kenneth B. Myers, at ,the company’s annual meeting today. The increased benefits would be generally welcomed, he said,- but many interests} would be adversely affected by the monopoly ■clauses. It must be seriously doubted whether a department of the business, which had been conducted for close on half a century by some 40 insurance companies, each handling hundreds of claims yearly, could be transferred overnight to the control of any single company—Government or otherwise—-to render the same prompt and efficient service
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1947, Page 6
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137‘INSURANCE COMPANIES’ EFFICIENCY MAY NOT BE ACHIEVED BY STATE’ Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1947, Page 6
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