Show SURAS CE QUICKLY PAID the speed and precision with which the bureau of war risk insurance ta handling cases calling for the payment of insurance under the total and permanent disability feature of the law were emphasized in an unexpectedly substantial manner to a group of wounded men who are patients at walter reed hospital during the course ot a visit to the bureau at the invitation ot director R G when the men reached the bureau in the morning they were unaware that their condition warranted kiy ment of insurance an the policies which they held at the time they were wounded in france on account of total and permanent disability still less did they anticipate that within a few hours they could be examined by medical officers awarded insurance and handed checks ranging from 67 to 47 covering insurance due them from the dates 0 their injuries to take with them when they returned to the hospital yet this la exactly what happened the names ot the men and a summary of their cases follow eugene J morall private company M infantry wounded at albert france july 18 1918 by a high explosive shell suffered amputation of left leg and loss of left eye private morall carried a war risk insurance policy for he was handed a check tor 47 and will receive insurance payments ot sa 60 per month as lone as he lives rolla lee tibbetts private company E infantry wounded at verdun france september 24 1918 y a high explosive shell suffered amputation of left leg wound in left arm and wounds on nose and ace private tibbetts carried a war risk insurance policy tor lie received a check for 92 and will receive insurance payments of 57 50 per month as long as he lives john E harlan private machine gun battalion of infantry wounded at verdun france by a high explosive shell september 28 1918 adjudged permanently and totally disabled private harlan carried a war risk insurance policy or he was given a check or 26 and will receive insurance payments of 57 50 per month as long as he lives robert A wolford private company C machine trun battalion wounded at tha battle of the argonne france november 1 1918 by a high explosive shell buffered amputation of left leg and wound in left arm private wolford carried a war risk insurance policy or he received a check tor 00 and will receive insurance payments of per month as long as he lives bartolo lombardo private company K battery wounded at dedun vedun france july 24 1918 by a high explosive shell suffered amputation 0 left leg and wound in right ankle private bartolo carried war risk insurance he received 34 and will receive insurance payments of 57 50 per month as long as be lives wounded men from walter reed are scheduled to receive similarly speedy delivery of checks on their insurance policies today and the work Is to be continued by a committee appointed by director cholm eley jones until all the men entitled to payments of insurance or permanent and total disability have been aund and given the money to which they are entitled under their policies all 0 the men who held war risk insurance policies and who are entitled to payments of insurance for total and permanent disability will receive compensation in addition to their insurance money after discharge from the service they would have received compensation automatically and regardless rg ardless ot whether they carried any war risk insurance but they would not have received the insurance money it they bad not carried insurance policies when one carries a war risk insurance policy and becomes totally and permanently disabled through sickness or injury he becomes eligible to receive monthly payments ot insurance from the date of bis alsa and as long as he lives he does not have to pay any more premiums every cormer service man or service woman who keeps up his or her government insurance will have this protection against possible total permanent disability which may occur to anyone at any time from a variety of causes when a member ot the military or naval forces bought war risk insurance he purchased straight life in aurance with the added proviso without increase in premiums that the insurance would mature and become payable to tha insured himself in the event that he became totally and permanently disabled few people appear to realize that insurance la entirely separate from corn fao latter being provided t aas irrespective of whether or not a WM purchased insurance |