Origin, Development and Practices of Livestock Insurance

The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review of the development of livestock insurance, one of the casualty lines which has not heretofore received much attention in the Proceedings of this Society. In a number of our states, without specific statutory provision for livestock insurance, this branch of the business is classed as casualty or "miscellaneous" insurance. The subject seems, therefore, to come within the scope of matters which may be brought before this Society.