Stad Rotterdam Verzekeringen

Stad Rotterdam Verzekeringen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈstɑt ˌrɔtərˈdɑm vərˈzeːkəˌrɪŋə(n)]) was the name of a Dutch insurance company, later known as ASR Nederland.

History

Stad Rotterdam Verzekeringen (City of Rotterdam Insurance in English) was founded in 1720. Until the merger with Fortis it was the oldest European mainland insurance company, at that time only Lloyd's of London was older. The full name of the original company was "Maatschappij ter discontering ende beleening der Stad Rotterdam anno 1720". In 1997, it changed its name to ASR Nederland when it merged with De Amersfoortse insurance company. ASR representing the first letters of Amersfoort and Stad Rotterdam.[1]

ASR Nederland was taken over by the insurance division of Fortis in 2000, but was re-established as an independent insurance company by the Dutch government after it bailed out Fortis in 2008.

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gollark: I like "respect" as "recognizing people as fellow humans who you should maintain some basic standard of niceness with". And "respect" as "admiring people based on achievements". And "respect" as "acknowledge people's opinions on things reasonably" and such. I do *not* like "respect" as "subservience"/"obedience" - the "respect for authority" sense. These are quite hard to define nicely and just get lumped into one overloaded word.
gollark: > I don't really like the term of "respect", because people use it to mean so many different often mutually exclusive things based on convenience then equivocate them in weird ways;
gollark: See, I consider this somewhat, well, worrying, given what I said about "respect" for authority figures being pretty close to "subservience" a lot.
gollark: "i will be respected here." implies EVERYONE, not just staff.

References
  1. "ASR History (in Dutch)". ASR Nederland. Retrieved February 22, 2013.


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