The insurance of merchant ships must give salvage rights to the insurer.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
As far back as 1884 Germany had enacted a law which put the blame for all accidents on the employers, except when the victim was wilfully negligent; in 1897 England had passed the British Workmen's Compensation Act which virtually made the employer the insurer of his workmen against all accidents.
"The United States Since The Civil War"
Charles Ramsdell Lingley
The insurer of property or life, if he be wise, will demand financial stability as a first requisite for the company in which he takes a policy.
"Monopolies and the People"
Charles Whiting Baker