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Show Sees Rehabilitation Saving Millions in Insurance Cost Everyone stands to gain when insurance companies rehabilitate accident sufferers instead of paying pay-ing to support their disabilities. Arne Fougner, an insurance . company president, presents the dramatic evidence of this in a May Reader's Digest article, "For Auto-Accident Victims a New Kind of Insurance." "For every million dollars j spent for rehabilitation ftthe insurance in-surance business stands to save as much as $100 million in re-! duced claims. These savings can be passed on to the policyholder in the form of lower premiums." Mr. Fougner's interest in automobile auto-mobile insurance is personal, rather than professional as his firm, Christinia General Insurance Insur-ance Corp. of Tarrytown, N.Y. is a reinsurance company, specializing spe-cializing in fire insurance , "I'm interested in rehabilitation rehabilita-tion because it saves both people and money. Let the victim go to a rehabilitation center where his injuries can be evaluated and where he can be restored to as near original condition as possible. pos-sible. Negotiations and settlement settle-ment can then proceed on the basis of known facts." He recounts the success of Liberty Lib-erty Mutual of Boston which has treated more than 6700 patients at its own rehabilitation centers in Boston and Chicago and has paid bills for thousands more at other centers. About 85 per cent of Liberty's disabled patients become be-come capable of working; 82 per cent actually return to work. Cited also are rehabilitation efforts of the Employers Mutual of Wausau, Wis., and the Nationwide Nation-wide Insurance Co. of Columbus, Ohio. Twenty seven of 35 critically criti-cally injured Wausau patients were restored to a high degree of independence at savings to the company estimated at "from $2,400,000 to $4,700,000!" |