Evolution of Insurance
Insurance came to existence with the development of human society. The concept of insurance existed since the early man age. It existed in natural economies and then gradually when the money economies came into the society, it became much more important than it ever was.
In modern world, insurance is part of the financial sphere. The modern concept of insurance started way back in the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC with the Chinese and Babylonian traders. Those days, the concept of insurance covered only transferring and distributing risks. Today, we have insurance in all spheres of life. We have Car Insurance, Travel Insurance, Pet Insurance, and Home Insurance, etc.
In terms of public insurance measures, the Achaemenian monarchs were the pioneer. They were the first to insure their people and made it official by registering the insuring process in governmental notary offices. But the concept of health and life insurance originated from the Greeks and the Romans. It was defined in their organized guides called “benevolent societies” where they have defined care for families and paid funeral expenses to their people upon death.
Insurance become much more popular towards the end of the end of the seventeenth century when London’s growing importance as a center for trade increased demand for marine insurance. Many companies came up to fulfill the insurance needs and insurance became more a necessarily then mere advantage.
The first insurance company in the United States was set up in 1732. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin founded the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire. And that way the present concept of modern insurance was born.
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