They couldn't in 1987, but now collectors and museums can buy defective title coverage or "war loot" insurance.
For example, health insurance premiums since World War II have enjoyed a special tax status.
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In the half-century since World War II, Japan's insurance industry has been the sort of government-sanctioned cartel that is Japan Inc. at its worst.
As competition intensified in the mid-2000s, many life insurance companies launched an unprecedented war for customers, offering benefits they now acknowledge were far, far too favorable.
It is an historical accident: employers began offering health insurance during the second world war as a way of attracting workers at a time when wages were fixed by the government.
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Smith has an opportunity to learn from the impressive success of Medicaid reform under Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, in which Indiana was actually able to expand coverage by shifting the structure of Medicaid insurance from the traditional, World War II model to a modern, consumer-driven one.
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He won a scholarship to attend college at Lawrence Technical Institute, before he was drafted to serve in World War II and later worked as a draftsman and insurance salesman.
Team Obama is hoping to use the recent fight over mandated insurance coverage for contraception to broaden the theater of war.
The last time the government provided insurance coverage for the airlines was during the Gulf War, when airlines that moved personnel and equipment to the Persian Gulf were insured.
Also, the nation is unhappy with what's going on in Washington, but President Bush is still pushing ahead with his agenda, including the unpopular Iraq war and his opposition to the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
His father was an English insurance broker who came to Mexico after the first world war.
To get around World War II wage controls, companies began offering employer-paid health insurance when they couldn't pay needed workers extra cash.
In Asia, China's airlines fly relatively few international routes, which limits their exposure to the "war risks" cover which is proving to be the sticking point for aviation insurance.
The plan finally addresses the tax-code legacy of World War II, by equalizing the tax treatment of employer-sponsored and individually-purchased health insurance.
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Although most Americans take it for granted that they receive health insurance through the workplace, this is an artifact of federal tax rules from World War II.
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