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...CREATE A WEBSITE Aetna launched My Aero Home. Run by a third-party administrator, this site answers all volunteer-related questions, logs hours of service and matches employee volunteers with suitable nonprofits. Managers are encouraged to log on and assess how giving can help the bottom line, through new skills, for example, and motivation, as the company allows employees to customize their time donations...
...defendant. Juries sometimes find that a person's actual damages amounted to only a few thousand dollars, yet decide that the corporation at fault should also pay punitive damages in the millions. In one startling case, now awaiting decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, an Alabama couple sued Aetna Life & Casualty Co., claiming that it had wrongfully refused to pay $1,650 of the wife's hospital bill. A jury awarded them punitive damages of $3.5 million, or 2,121 times the size of the disputed bill...
...heard about a promising new pilot program from Aetna called Healthy Body, Healthy Weight, that breaks new ground in helping overweight patients and reimbursing primary care doctors for time spent on this. We heard suggestions to build financial incentives into our health insurance systems so that companies and individuals reap benefits from changing to a healthier lifestyle, diet and weight. How about a pilot program on that...
Finding ways to attack and reverse the obesity epidemic is a key goal of the conference, which is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the New Balance Foundation, Aetna and American Milk Processors. The gathering is a mix of physicians, researchers, members of the food and restaurant industry, policy makers and others...
These efforts mark a shift in tactics. Rather than seek slavery reparations from the U.S. government--a move that has little support in Congress--advocates are taking a cue from successful compensation suits by Holocaust victims and focusing on corporations. Among the defendants are such insurance companies as Aetna; financial-services companies, including FleetBoston and J.P. Morgan Chase; and such railroad giants as CSX and Union Pacific. Although the municipal ordinances don't address reparations, they require companies to research their records to disclose whether they benefited from slavery--information that could help identify "specific targets for reparations," says Deadria...