Julian C. Corbin Insurance Agency

Julian C. Corbin Started Insurance Business in 1897

Bainbridge News & Republican, April 20, 1939

 

In the month of May 1897, Julian C. Corbin started his insurance agency, with one idea fixed firmly in his mind--to give Bainbridge people the best type of life insurance.  His first policy holder was Jessie C. Hynds, widow of Charles Hynds.

 

In May 1903, Mr. Corbin voluntarily cancelled his agency with the Phoenix Mutual life Insurance co., because he had been able to secure what he considered the best life insurance company operating in the United States.  This was the Connecticut Mutual Life of Hartford, and Mr. Corbin has written life insurance in that company ever since.  His first policy in the Connecticut Mutual was written on June 4, 1903, for Joseph E. Hirt.  This was a twenty premium life policy, which has been paid up since 1923.

 

In 1914, Mr. Corbin decided to write fire insurance also, and secured the agency for three good stock fire insurance companies and placed business with them until 1931. During 1931 Mr. Corbin heard that some of the old New England, legal reserve mutual companies had entered New York State for business.  He immediately secured the agency for three of these companies, and stopped writing business for the stock companies.  Mr. Corbin did this to save his policy holders money on their fire insurance, and in the past eight years he has effected considerable savings for his clients.  Mutual companies charge the same rates (board rates) as stock companies but pay back 20 percent in dividends.  Mr. Corbin states that "It has always been my desire to give my policy holders the best there is, and I believe that in so doing, I am furthering my own interest, because what is best for my clients, will also be best for me, in the long run." 

 

Mr. Corbin has written for four casualty companies, and some time ago settled on the American Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company of Chicago, as the company in which to place his business, because again, he thought it the best for policy holders.

 

In addition to life and fire insurance, Mr. Corbin writes automobile liability and property damage, fire and tornado, and collision;  he also handles practically all forms of casualty insurance--including public liability, building liability, plate, compensation, etc. 

 

Regardless of what type of insurance you need, it pays to see Mr. Corbin.  He has a long list of satisfied policy holders dating back to his first years in the business.