Fred Drexler, Former Chairman of Industrial Indemnity, Dies

December 10, 2003

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Fred Drexler, former chairman of Industrial Indemnity Company in San Francisco, died on Dec. 7. He was 88 years old.

Drexler was a leader in the Western insurance industry. He was founder of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute in 1964, and was named Insurance Man of the Year in Los Angeles in 1971 and in San Francisco in 1972. An authority on workers’ compensation insurance, Drexler established a national organization in the late 1960s that led to improved benefits for workers.

Drexler was named on three occasions by successive California insurance commissioners to head industry advisory committees. He was vice chairman of the California Insurance Guarantee Association, served twice as chairman of the then California Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau, and as president of the Pacific Insurance and Surety Conference in 1967-68.

After Industrial Indemnity was acquired by Crum and Forster in 1968, Drexler served as a director of that national insurance holding company for 15 years.

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  • March 4, 2010 at 8:40 am
    vincent chang says:
    as I recall, crum and forster took over in 1988 not 1968 as the article stated.
  • August 24, 2008 at 1:53 am
    Mary Delanty Brown says:
    August 23, 2008 -- In review of my former comments, I would not change a word. Fred Drexler touched my life and gave me knowledge that opened my life to a new view of the wo... read more
  • June 27, 2005 at 1:34 am
    Mary Delanty Brown says:
    Fred Drexler was an icon of the being of man. He was truthful, honest and the epitomy of a kind and caring individual. He gave his utmost monetarily and psychologically to p... read more
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