National Underwriter reported frequently in late 1918 about the efforts life insurers were making to cope with the 1918 influenza pandemic, which struck during World War I.
The flu started making its presence felt in the pages of National Underwriter early in October 1918, when the paper started carrying reports of insurance company executives who had died suddenly from influenza or influenza-related pneumonia.
Here is an item that ran in the Oct. 31, 1918, edition: