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HISTORY Tanenbaum-Harber: Where Tradition Meets the 21st Century In 1844, 20 year-old Isaac Tanenbaum was working as a plumber in Manhattan's garment district, where fires often occurred. In response, he developed a sprinkler head which opened when the tallow fuse melted from excess heat. Soon he was installing sprinkler systems, along with a warranty that they would work if his monthly inspection service was purchased. In the 1850s, he started selling Fire and Sprinkler Leakage Insurance to his sprinkler clients. By 1860, he had formed a separate insurance office. Moses Tanenbaum followed his father into the firm. An innovator in the industry, he developed insurance engineering for safety and loss prevention as a science, combining the company's insurance and sprinkler expertise. The tradition continued with Samuel, who worked in the Navy Department during WWI, helping to develop war risk insurance. Returning to New York, he encouraged his father , Moses, to branch into international insurance. In 1932, Samuel brought Carl Harber, and his expertise in transportation insurance, to the company. In the following decades, Tanenbaum-Harber grew in the areas of entertainment, manufacturing, real estate, hospitality and distribution, by emphasizing risk management and risk retention combined with special claims handling. An apt symbol for the company, Tanenbaum-Harber's horse-drawn fire truck has raced into the new century, meeting modern insurance challenges through tradition and ingenuity. Home
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