A brief historical sketch of the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America (ALIMDA), the predecessor of the American Academy of Insurance Medicine (AAIM).

ABSTRACT

This is a brief historical sketch of ALIMDA, the name of our professional organization when it was founded at a meeting of a few medical directors in New York City in 1898. The principal source for its contents is based on recollections of my own experience with ALIMDA/AAIM since I first became a member after appointment as an Assistant Medical Director of the company then known as New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, in Boston, in 1952. I was never an officer of ALIMDA or AAIM, but I attended most of its meetings, and I was involved in our mortality research activites.