Opinion: The long history of distrust for American insurance companies

In “Double Indemnity,” the Depression era masterpiece about insurance fraud and murder, the anti-hero Walter Huff quickly disabuses the reader from thinking of insurance as a virtuous enterprise:

“You think it’s a business don’t you, just like your business, and maybe a little better than that, because it’s the friend of the widow, the orphan, and the needy in time of trouble? It’s not. It’s the biggest gambling wheel in the world.”

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