FIVE BROOKLYN INSURANCE MEN LOSE LICENSES
Brooklyn Standard Union
18 July 1929

Revoked as Disciplinary Measures, CONWAY Says
Licenses of five Brooklyn insurance agents have been revoked 
by State Superintendent of Insurance Albert CONWAY, it was 
learned yesterday. 

The agents were:

Harry BERGEN, of Harry Bergen Inc., of 148 Montague street.
BERGEN was charged with "failure to account for premiums collected and 
with violation of the provisions of Section 141 of the State Insurance 
Las, in that he collected on a bond and amount in excess of the proper 
premium." He was licensed as a agent for 
Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
Travelers Insurance Company, 
Capital City Surety Company,
Guardian Casualty Company, 
United States Merchants and Shippers Insurance Company, 
Federal Union Insurance Company.

Julius SHER, of 203 Havemeyer street.
SHER, who was licensed as an insurance broker and as an agent of the 
Equitable Life Assurance Society, was charges with failure to account 
for premiums collected and with engaging in the insurance brokerage 
business as a partner of an unlicensed individual.

Harry HAYKIN, of 364 Hopkinson avenue.
HAYKIN was licensed as an agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He 
was charged with failure to account for premiums collected and with 
acting as an insurance broker without authority from the State Department.

Louis J. GOLDMAN, of 515 Dahill road.
GOLDMAN was charged with failure to account for premiums collected. He 
was licensed as an agent for the Travelers Insurance Company.

Michael LEVINE, of 373 Fulton street.
LEVINE was said to have given worthless checks in payment of premiums. 
He was licensed as a broker and as an agent of the Equitable and the 
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company.
The revoking of licenses to act as insurance agents and brokers is a 
displicinary measure, it was said at the complaint bureau of the State 
Department of Insurance. 

(Transcriber’s note displicinary is how it was 
spelled in the newspaper - should be disciplinary)

Transcriber:Chris Hendrickson
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