Arbitration/Appraisal agreements, 1884-1924

This subseries covers a relatively brief period of time for which formal external documentation of losses was collected. In general, such documents arose either as the result of a disputed settlement, or more rarely, when a commercial interest elected to submit a formal loss record for its own satisfaction. The numerous losses in 1904 necessitated the submission of Proofs of Loss, which are arranged numerically according to the number assigned in the large volume “Losses Incurred in the Conflagration of Feb. 7-8, 1904” (see Subseries 14: Miscellaneous Insurance Records).