“We are in the insurance business and that’s what we should do,” Cornelius Abernathy Craig told his son, Edwin. Cornelius was the longtime president of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company. He had purchased the failing company in December 1901 when it was called National Sick and Accident Company. By this time, the early 1920s, it had become a thriving business.
Edwin Craig, currently the vice president, wasn’t considering abandoning the insurance business or trying to move the company in a different direction. He was a visionary, and he believed a recent invention could greatly expand the reach of the Nashville-based National Life and Accident Insurance Company.
