AETNA RX HOME DELIVERY, LLC
HARTFORD, CT

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The efforts and ideas of these groups help us to meet the needs of a diverse marketplace. Doing business with diverse suppliers helps us to better understand and serve our multi-cultural markets. We are looking to increase business relationships with certified minority, women, LGBT and small-business suppliers. Aetna Insurance Company organized an annuity fund to sell life insurance in 1850. In 1853, the Annuity department separates from Aetna Insurance and is incorporated as Aetna Life Insurance Company. The company's first president is Eliphalet A. Bulkeley. The "Aetna" name is retained to take advantage of the good reputation of the original Aetna. The name was inspired by an 11,000-foot volcano on the eastern shores of Sicily, Mt. Etna, which was the most active volcano in Europe. Eliphalet A. Bulkeley stops a move to liquidate the company during an economic downturn. Aetna begins offering participating life insurance policies, which paid dividends to policyholders just as the mutuals did, but gave Aetna the ability to better compete in the marketplace. Aetna launches its new product with an aggressive promotional effort, which included higher commission rates for agents. This shift in strategy caught the industry by surprise. With the outbreak of the Civil War, many companies were thinking of retrenching, not expansion. But the devastation of the battlefields combined with a prosperous wartime economy sparked a surge in life insurance purchases. Annual income tops $1 million. By 1864, Aetna increased its business 600 percent over 1861 levels. This rapid growth gave Aetna the financial stability to meet the stringent requirements placed on life companies in Massachusetts and New York. Aetna issues its first farm mortgage loan. By 1872, Aetna had 27 percent of its assets in farm mortgages. From that start, the company rose to become one of the two largest national firms in the farm mortgage field. By 1924, Aetna had 43 percent of its assets — $94 million — invested in the breadbasket of the country. Aetna radically alters its business practices and hires its first actuary. It also abandons the half-note premium system, a widely used insurance standard. An all-cash premium plan is introduced, making Aetna one of the first companies to switch from half-notes. Aetna also built into new policies an emphasis on consumer-oriented items, such as nonforfeiture clauses and paying policyholder dividends after the first year rather than the fifth, as was generally done. Aetna issues its first accident policy. With its entry into accident coverage, Aetna took its first step in a 30-year transformation from a monoline insurer to a company that offered a variety of coverages. Aetna becomes one of the first stock insurance companies to enter the health insurance business. The new product was offered only to people holding or purchasing an Aetna life or accident policy. Aetna begins offering liability coverage. As the nation's industrial base grew more complex, and the Progressive social reform movement gained political momentum, Aetna responds by organizing an Accident and Liability department in 1902 to handle employers' liability and workmen's collective insurance. This department became the cornerstone of the Aetna Accident and Liability Company in 1907. It later added protection against damage to horse teams, flywheel breakage, auto collision coverage, plate glass and burglary insurance, and surety bonds. The San Francisco earthquake hammers the insurance industry. Two hundred and forty-three insurance companies pay out more than $225 million in claims. This wipes out every dollar of profit American fire insurers had made over the previous 47 years. Twenty companies fail completely. Most make only partial payments under the tenuous assertion that most of the damage in the city had been caused by the earthquake (for which fire insurers were not liable). Nonetheless, the Hartford insurance companies would pay every claim in full. The Hartford Fire Insurance Company pays over $11 million. Aetna Insurance Company pays almost $3 million. The company begins offering automobile coverage. Soon after, Aetna began aggressively developing related lines, such as collision and damage. The company begins its first national advertising campaign. Aetna forms a department to sell group life insurance, becoming one of the first insurers to write group coverage for businesses. This became the foundation upon which Aetna built its current health care business. The 1900s brought into the public consciousness the notion that employers were responsible for the safety of their workers. The United States enters World War I. Aetna uses its financial strength to provide insurance needed to bond contractors involved in government construction. The company also helps fund the country's war effort by purchasing and selling millions of dollars of Liberty Bonds. The company advertises on radio for the first time. Aetna appoints its first female officer, Dr. Marion Bills. Bills revamped the company's personnel policies within two years. She also introduced the Bonus Plan, a piecework sliding pay scale that was primarily applied to data processing departments.