Dagfinn Dahl (28 January 1887 – 24 May 1967) was a Norwegian barrister who specialized in

insurance law Insurance law is the practice of law surrounding insurance, including insurance policies and claims. It can be broadly broken into three categories - regulation of the business of insurance; regulation of the content of insurance policies, especial ...

Personal life

He was born in

Kristiania Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

as a son of priest Konrad Neumann Hjelm Dahl (1843–1931) and Petra Jeannette Louise Lossius (1849–1901). He was a nephew of

Walter Scott Dahl Walter Scott Dahl (21 February 1839 – 4 September 1906) was a Norwegian jurist and member of the Norwegian Parliament with the Liberal Party. Biography Dahl was born at Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the son of Nils Nilssøn Dahl (1 ...

and grandson of

Nils Nilssøn Dahl Niels Lauritz Dahl (18 July 1806 – 21 July 1854) was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was born in Romsdal. He was the father of Konrad Neumann Hjelm Dahl and Walter Scott Dahl, grandfather of Dagfinn Dahl and great-grandfather of Niels Laur ...

. In 1916 he married Nini Schrøder, a sister of barrister Johannes Schrøder. Their son

Niels Lauritz Dahl Niels Lauritz Dahl (29 October 1925 – 17 January 2014) was a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Oslo as a son of Dagfinn Dahl. He was a maternal nephew of Johannes Schrøder, paternal grandson of Konrad Neumann Hjelm Dahl, grandnephew of Walter ...

became an ambassador.

Career

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his secondary education in 1905, graduated from the

Royal Frederick University The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

with the

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degree in 1910 and was a barrister with access to working with Supreme Court cases from 1919. He had worked as a junior solicitor between 1910 and 1914, and was hired in the insurance company Forsikringsselskapet Sigyn in 1915. In 1920 he was promoted to assisting director, and he became chief executive in 1949. His publications on

include ''Om ansvarsforsikring'' (1929), ''Erstatning og opreisning for legemsskade efter norsk rett'' (1933) and ''Synspunkter i og utenfor erstatningsretten'' (1939). He was a co-founder of ''Norsk Forsikringsjuridisk Forening'', and chaired it from 1934 to 1957. He was a vice president of the

Norwegian Automobile Federation Norwegian Automobile Federation ( no, Norges Automobil-Forbund, NAF) is a Norwegian association of car owners, established in 1924, and member of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. The federation has 73 local chapters and more than 500,0 ...

from 1924 to 1957, vice chairman of the Norwegian Insurance Society and a board member of the Norwegian Life Saving Society. He died on 24 May 1967.

References

1887 births 1967 deaths Lawyers from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Norwegian businesspeople in insurance 20th-century Norwegian lawyers {{Norway-law-bio-stub