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...Manhattan last week, New York State Superintendent of Insurance Alfred J. Bohlinger released an unusual announcement: Thomas Ignatius Parkinson, 71, boss for the last 26 years of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, third largest insurance company in the U.S. (after Metropolitan Life and Prudential), would shortly resign. Bohlinger implied that he had forced the resignation...
State investigators, he said, had spent more than two years probing Parkinson's handling of Equitable's affairs, and had prepared a 289-page report of their findings. The society, he carefully pointed out, was in "sound financial condition," but the report accused Parkinson of "nepotism" in giving $950,921 of the society's advertising business to a newly formed agency controlled by his young son, Courtney V. Parkinson, who had no experience handling such large accounts. It also charged that "favoritism" had been shown in handing out the company's legal work and in placing...
Many of the charges had been aired before, although not in a formal report, and Equitable had taken steps to correct any practices criticized. And as Equitable's President Ray D. Murphy quickly pointed out, Parkinson had been preparing to retire when his term as chairman of the board runs out next February. What shocked insurance men. for whom Parkinson has often been the country's leading spokesman, was the implication that Parkinson was being forced out of his $100,000-a-year job under fire. Parkinson lost no time correcting that impression. Said he: "I am proud...
...That Parkinson meant to fight it out was no surprise; he has never ducked a challenge. He likes to tell how, as a young graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School, he applied for a job with an insurance company and was turned down with the answer: "You won't do, young man. you're not the type that makes good in life insurance." Parkinson did so well outside insurance that eventually the insurance men came to him. After practicing law for five years, he helped revise New York City's administrative code (the rules and regulations...
...Offensive. In meeting the charges last week, Parkinson took the offensive himself. He implied that he was being kicked out to leave his $100,000-a-year job vacant for a high state official. Bohlinger, who said that he did not want the job, found that he had some more explaining to do. Newspapers raised the question whether Bohlinger was not violating the state law, since his wife is chairman of the board of and controls a New York insurance brokerage concern, left her by her first husband, a former Equitable agent. Though the state law states that the insurance...