IS (Insurance) (White House Central Files: Subject Files)

This subject category contains materials pertaining to various insurance topics such as auto, disaster, disability, health, fire, agricultural, marine, life, surety, unemployment compensation, and flood insurance. These materials consist of 1-1/3 cubic feet, of which some 3 inches are restricted.

The terms Executive and General used before the code "IS," and all subdivisions thereunder, generally determine the source of the materials thus coded. Items designated "Executive" are communications among national, foreign, state and local governments and their agencies, Members of Congress, and other prominent people. Items designated "General" are communications between government officials and private citizens, institutions, businesses, and other private interests. The topics filed under each category are generally similar.

Related subject categories in the White House Central Files, Subject Files include:

FG 21 Department of Commerce

FG 23 Department of Health, Education and Welfare

FG 24 Department of Housing and Urban Development

FG 25 Department of Transportation

HE Health

HE 2 Health: Doctors - Dentists - Nurses

HE 6 Health: Hospitals - Medical Care

LA 2 Labor-Management Relations, Conditions - Employment - Unemployment

PR 7 Public Relations, Engagements - Appointment

PR 13 Public Relations: Petitions - Resolutions - Multiple Solutions

ST 38 States - Territories, Pennsylvania

WE Welfare

WE 7 Social Security

The Insurance subject file is organized under an alphabetical-numeric subject classification scheme of three primary categories. These are: IS, general insurance matters; IS-1, Accident-Hospital-Medical Health materials; and IS-2, Disaster-Flood-Fire-Marine, matters, with each of these major categories further divided by subseries. Materials within the folders are arranged in chronological order. This subject category contains materials pertaining to various insurance topics such as automobile disaster, disability, health, fire, agricultural crop, marine, life, surety, unemployment compensation and flood insurance. Principal correspondents include, among others, the President, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Daniel P. Moynihan, George P. Shultz, Peter Flanigan, Robert Finch, Caspar Weinberger, Alexander M. Haig, Frank carlucci, and numerous congressmen, businessmen, and the general public.

IS INSURANCE

The files located in this series contain originals, carbons, electrostatic copies, newspaper clippings, memorandum of meetings, cross references to other file subjects, transmittal notes, reports, telegrams, handwritten notes and drafts.

The memoranda in this series contain materials pertaining to: consumer credit insurance, the Federal Insurance Guarantee Act, No Fault Automobile Insurance Nationwide, the National Health Insurance Standards Act, Crime Insurance, Insolvency Insurance, Black Lung, the Federal Crop Insurance Program, Family Health Insurance Plan, and Aviation War Risk Insurance.

IS 1 Accident-Hospital-Medical Health

The files located in this series contain originals, carbons, electrostatic copies, newspaper clippings, memorandum of meetings, cross references to other file subjects, transmittal notes, reports, telegrams, handwritten notes, schedules, teletype, lists and drafts.

The memoranda in this category contain materials pertaining to: Medicaid and Medicare, Catastrophic Insurance, Black Lung Act of 1972, No Fault Automobile Insurance, chiropractic services under Medicare and Medicaid, health maintenance organizations, comprehensive Health Insurance Act of 1974, Job Security Assistance Act of 1973, Workmen's Compensation, Medicare Chronic Renal Disease Program, Professional Standards Review Organization (PSROS) and the Kennedy-Griffin Bill.

IS 2 Disaster-Flood-Fire-Marine

The files located in this series contain originals, carbons, electrostatic copies, newspaper clippings, cross references to other file subjects, memorandum of meetings, transmittal notes, reports, telegrams, handwritten notes and drafts.

This file contains materials pertaining to: the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, the National Catastrophic Insurance Act of 1973, the National Disaster Protection Act of 1973, marine insurance trade with U.S.S.R., the All Risk Insurance Task Force and a Report on Earthquake Insurance.