---
title: "Companies no longer listed under that name, with what happened and where the business went"
method: GET
path: "/former.json"
---

# Companies no longer listed under that name, with what happened and where the business went

`GET /former.json`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://insurers.global/api/v1`
- URL: `https://insurers.global/api/v1/former.json`
- Auth: none declared

## Response `200`

OK

- object
  - `dataset` string
  - `version` string
  - `verified` string, date
  - `licence` string
  - `count` integer
  - `data` FormerEntity[]
    - `slug` string, required
    - `name` string, required
    - `country` string, required
    - `continent` 'africa' | 'europe' | 'asia-pacific' | 'south-america' | 'north-america', required
    - `event` string, required
    - `eventCode` 'RN' | 'AQ' | 'MG' | 'TR' | 'WD' | 'FL' | 'LR', required
    - `continuity` 'continues' | 'transferred' | 'ended' | 'failed' | 'unknown', required: How the company stopped being listed under this name. A renamed, acquired, merged or transferred insurer keeps its licence; only "failed" indicates failure, and "unknown" means the disappearance is evidenced but its cause is not.
    - `eventDate` string, nullable: ISO date or a bare year. Do not assume a full date.
    - `successor` string, nullable: Slug of the insurer listed today, or null when nothing survived.
    - `chain` string[]: Every step from here to the surviving insurer, in order.
    - `source` string, required
    - `notes` string, nullable
    - `id` integer, nullable: Present only for a former page the daily register watch created: the workbook row it replaced, or null when the watch had added that row itself.
    - `registerWatch` object: Present only for a former page the daily register watch created.
      - `type` 'rename' | 'remove'
      - `date` string, date
      - `sourceUrl` string, uri
      - `review` 'bot-researched' | 'verified'
    - `status` string: Short human label for continuity, e.g. "Merged".
    - `summary` string: One-sentence account of what happened, naming the successor when there is one.
    - `successorName` string, nullable
    - `successorUrl` string, uri, nullable

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