The Insurance Hall of Fame, occasionally referred to as the International Insurance Hall of Fame, honors exceptional members of the insurance field. It was created in 1957 and is administered by the global nonprofit International Insurance Society (IIS), which was founded in 1965 and is based in New York City.
The Insurance Hall of Fame's museum and portrait gallery at the University of Alabama houses a collection of portraits and memorabilia of the laureates. A multimedia collection of laureate portraits, videos, and biographies are also housed in a gallery at St. John's University in New York City.
Qualification To qualify for inclusion in the Insurance Hall of Fame, nominees must be adjudged to have made a lasting contribution to the insurance industry. They also may have shown creative thinking and imaginative actions – starting trends, discovering new products or methods, or uncovering and resolving problems.
Nominees for the Insurance Hall of Fame are submitted by the IIS membership and evaluated for selection by the IIS Honors Committee, a body of senior insurance executives and academics. The nominees are then voted on by the IIS membership by secret ballot, which is tabulated and conducted by an independent auditing firm.
History The Insurance Hall of Fame was conceived and organized in 1957 by John S. Bickley, who was then professor of insurance at Ohio State University. It was sponsored by the Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education, which had its headquarters on the OSU campus. The Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1947 at Ohio State University in memory of a young Columbus, Ohio insurance agent, Charles W. Griffith, who was killed in World War II; the foundation was affiliated with OSU until 1992.
Bickley, who continued to spearhead the Insurance Hall of Fame as its Chairman, later moved to the University of Texas, and then to the University of Alabama, where he had started his academic career.
In 1965 the Insurance Hall of Fame became international, appointing electors from 32 countries and voting on candidates from anywhere in the world. That year Bickley founded the International Insurance Society (IIS), based in New York City, as a forum where people involved in insurance could share their ideas and interests. The IIS encourages networking, academic pursuits, and education; it sponsors annual meetings, and funds research projects and awards. A committee of insurance industry leaders at IIS annually elects the inductees to the Insurance Hall of Fame – those who have made notable contributions to the insurance industry worldwide. As of 2019 the IIS includes electors from over 90 countries.
In 1987 the Insurance Hall of Fame's museum and portrait gallery moved to the University of Alabama, where Bickley taught. Space at the New York City-based International Insurance Society is too limited to display any but the current year's inductees. By 2010 the museum in Alabama had drawn over 250,000 visitors. The facility includes a portrait gallery of inductees through the years, a museum of insurance, and a lecture hall.
In 2003 an additional gallery was opened at St. John's University in New York City, which hosts a multimedia collection of laureate portraits, videos, and biographies. In 2004 the Insurance Hall of Fame launched its website, with lists and profiles of all inductees since its inception.
Insurance Hall of Fame laureates Data is from Insurance Hall of Fame Laureates by Year of Induction .
1950s 1957 Elizur Wright - USA Solomon S. Huebner - USA Benjamin Franklin - USA
1958 Charles Evans Hughes - USA Ralph H. Blanchard - USA
1959 Frederick H. Ecker - USA Albert F. Dean - USA
1960s 1960 M. Albert Linton - USA John A. Diemand, Sr. - USA
1961 Clarence Arthur Kulp - USA Louis I. Dublin - USA
1962 John Marshall Holcombe, Jr. - USA Alfred M. Best - USA
1963 Julian S. Myrick - USA Sheppard Homans - USA
1964 William Leslie, Sr. - USA
1965 Ernst Froelich - Switzerland Haley Fiske - USA James Dodson - United Kingdom Johan DeWitt - Netherlands James G. Batterson - USA Nicholas Barbon - United Kingdom
1966 Alfred Manes - Germany Holgar J. Johnson - USA Cuthbert Eden Heath - United Kingdom
1967 William David Winter - USA Georges Tattevin - France Edmond Halley - United Kingdom Alfred N. Guertin - USA Leighton Foster - Canada
1968 Arthur Hunter - USA Joseph Arnould - India Zachariah Allen - USA
1969 Charles J. Zimmerman - USA Harry J. Loman - USA Max E. Eisenring - Switzerland
1970s 1970 Tsuneta Yano - Japan James Scott Kemper, Sr. - USA Kenkichi Kagami - Japan Hendon Chubb - USA John Julius Angerstein - United Kingdom
1971 John F. Dryden - USA Paul F. Clark - USA Alois Alzheimer - Germany
1972 David McCahan - USA Walter Arnold Dinsdale - United Kingdom
1973 Maurice Picard - France Albert Henry Mowbray - USA
1974 Richard Price - United Kingdom Cecil Edward Golding - United Kingdom Harald Cramer - Sweden Eugenio Artom - Italy
1975 Cornelius V. Starr - USA Murray D. Lincoln - USA J. Roger Hull - USA Jacques Basyn - Belgium
1976 Otto von Bismarck - Germany Edwin W. Patterson - USA Gen Hirose - Japan
1978 Taizo Abe - Japan
1979 Herbert W. Heinrich - USA Henry S. Beers - USA
1980s 1980 Joseph B. Maclean - USA Andre Besson - France
1981 Antigono Donati - Italy
1982 Haruo Murase - Japan
1983 Ikunoshin Kadono - Japan
1984 B. K. Shah - India Benjamin Rush - USA
1985 S. Bruce Black - USA
1986 Robert E. Dineen - USA Jean-Baptiste Colbert - France
1987 Victor Dover - United Kingdom Jorge Bande - Chile
1988 Alex Möller - Germany John S. Bickley - USA Robert A. Beck - USA
1989 Edwin S. Overman - USA Maurice R. Greenberg - USA
1990s 1990 Douglas A. Barlow - Canada
1991 Alfred H. Pollard - Australia Horst K. Jannott - Germany
1992 John E. Fisher - USA
1993 C. Arthur Williams - USA Kenneth Black - USA
1994 Davis W. Gregg - USA
1995 Ronald M. Hubbs - USA Willem de Wit - Netherlands
1996 Yong Ho Shin - South Korea Robert F. McDermott - USA
1997 Alfonso Yuchengco - Philippines Saburo Kawai - Japan
1998 Thomas Bassett Macaulay - Canada José Maria De Delas Y Miralles - Spain Hans Bühlmann - Switzerland
1999 George J. Mecherle - USA Edwin A. G. Manton - USA Claude Bébéar - France
2000s 2000 Jose Pinera - Chile Hans Gerling - Germany
2001 Josei Itoh - Japan Leo Goodwin, Sr. - USA James C. H. Anderson - USA
2002 Lutgart Van den Berghe - Belgium Aad Jacobs - Netherlands Edison L. Bowers - USA
2003 Edmund Tse - Hong Kong Clemente Cabello P. - Mexico
2004 Kees J. Storm - Netherlands Takeo Inokuchi - Japan Per M. Hansson - Norway
2005 William Meredith - Canada Walter Kielholz - Switzerland Ignacio Hernando de Larramendi - Spain
2006 Siegfried Sellitsch - Austria Orio Giarini - Italy
2007 Frederic Reiss - Bermuda José Manuel Martínez - Spain Robert Clements - USA
2008 Patrick G. Ryan - USA Professor G. S. Diwan - India Dominic D'Alessandro - Canada
2009 Sir David Rowland - United Kingdom Jack Byrne - USA
2010s 2010 Frank O'Halloran - Australia William C. Greenough - USA
2011 Brian Duperreault - USA Guy Carpenter - USA
2012 Ikuo Uno - Japan Manuel Povoas - Brazil
2013 Robert Benmosche - USA
2014 Robert Kiln - United Kingdom Denis Kessler - France
2015 Stephen Catlin - United Kingdom
2016 Donald Kramer - USA
2017 Nikolaus von Bomhard - Germany
2018 Shuzo Sumi - Japan
2019 Michael A. Butt - Bermuda
2021 Greig Woodring - USA
2022 Larry Zimpleman - USA
2023 Chang-Jae Shin - South Korea
References
External links Official website Insurance Hall of Fame at Vimeo