Celebrated American statesman Benjamin Franklin led the effort to create America's first fire insurance company. His group established "The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire" in 1752 with a board of directors and seventy shareholders. The first insured property to burn was repaired for 154 pounds, nearly a third of the Society's assets.
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