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Welcome to the Insurance vs History Podcast! In my fourth episode, I investigate how insurance saved San Francisco after the Great earthquake—or the Great Fire, depending on who you ask–almost destroyed the city entirely. Join me to learn about mitigating risk through policy wording, the concept of “directly or indirectly”, and why building a city by creating land from the bay was a terrible idea.
Selected Links:
- The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (usgs.gov)
- San Francisco 1906 Earthquake – Lloyd’s (lloyds.com)
- The San Francisco disaster : honest and dishonest insurance/ speech of Julius Kahn, of California, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, June 28, 1906. (berkeley.edu)
- Museum of the City of San Francisco (sfmuseum.org)
- Online Exhibit – Introduction – San Francisco Earthquake and Fire – The Bancroft Library – University of California, Berkeley
- Online Exhibit – Buildings Sank Like Quicksand – San Francisco Earthquake and Fire – The Bancroft Library – University of California, Berkeley—photos shows the Valencia Hotel after sinking. Whoa.
- Online Exhibit – Burned Districts of San Francisco – San Francisco Earthquake and Fire – The Bancroft Library – University of California, Berkeley Photos shows the map of the burned areas of SF.
- (99+) (PDF) Earthquake versus Fire: The Struggle over Insurance in the Aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster | Eleonora Rohland – Academia.edu article about Reinsurance and the attempt to introduce a standardized earthquake clause
- Six-20Bits-20or-20Bust-20Insurance-20Litigation.pdf (pillsburylaw.com)
Books:
- com: Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books): 9780295742465: Dyl, Joanna L., Sutter, Paul S., Sutter, Paul S.: Books
- Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906: Kurzman, Dan: 9780061051746: Amazon.com: Books
Hire These People:
- My audio editor, and AMAZING Voice Over Actor—who did all the VO for this episode: Zach Stinnett
Music Credits:
- Boulangerie by Jeremy Sherman, courtesy of NeoSounds: Boulangerie, LynneMusic | NeoSounds music library
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