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Show Flying Insurance Is Now Being Studied Washington. Thorough study of all phases of aeronautical Insurance has been undertaken by the Dunlel Guggenheim Gug-genheim Fund for the Promotion ot Aeronautics under the direction of Copt. Bay A. Dunn, army air corps, appointed as consultant to the fund by Harry F. Guggenheim, president - "Aviation Insurance is one of the outstanding problems not only of the commercial aviator, but of all those engaged In flying," Mr. Guggenheim stated In announcing the appointment and Its approval by the War department. depart-ment. "At present rates for insurance of this kind are almost prohibitive and this is very largely due to the almost complete lack of correlated information informa-tion on the subject. The attempts made by American Insurance companies com-panies to solve this problem have been hampered by the inadequate scope of the statistics available. "The results of the studies made by Insurance actuaries have all differed with respect to the hazards of different differ-ent classes of flying, and these differences differ-ences have resulted In the varying and extremely high premium rates established estab-lished by the underwriting companies for avlution risks. In the face of this ) confused situation It has been difficult , if not impossible, for the public as well as for military and naval officers '. of the United States etignged In avla- i tion to obtain' the a mount of insur- j i ance coverage which has been desired, j "Because of the importance of life I Insurance to avlution. the fund has j asked Captain Dunn to conduct a sur- j vey which will compile accurate and i official dntu In regard to avlution mor- j tullty and in so doing make available ( to the insurance underwriters those j statistics which are necessary for the J satisfactory stiihilizutlon of this un- j j settled question." I |