Hospital Insurance

IF ACCEPTED by the requisite 75% of eligible employees, a group hospitalization insurance plan for faculty members, administrative officers, and other College personnel will go into effect on October 1. Details of the plan were worked out this summer by a special committee, headed by Bursar Max A. Norton '19, after the Board of Trustees at its meeting last June had accepted the recommendation that hospitalization insurance be adopted and had granted the same committee full authority to select the most advantageous plan.

The hospitalization insurance sponsored by the College, and underwritten by the Century Indemnity Company of Hartford, Conn., is open without medical examination to all employees and their respective wives or husbands up to age 70, as well as their dependent children from 1 to 18 years of age. For faculty members, officers of administration, staff assistants and foremen, a monthly premium of $l1.00 for individual membership or $2.00 for required family membership provides a hospitalization benefit of $5.00 daily for a maximum of 70 days for each accident or illness, and a maximum of $25.00 for other specified charges. For all other College employees, a monthly premium of 50 cents for an individual and $l.00 for a family provides similar benefits of $3.00 daily for a period of not over 70 days for each illness and a maximum reimbursement of $15.00 for other charges. In pregnancy cases the maximum period covered by insurance is 14 days.

In addition to Mr. Norton, members of the committee appointed by President Hopkins to work out details for the hospitalization plan included Prof. Francis J. Neef and Prof. Andrew G. Truxal. Study by the College of the possibility of establishing such group insurance was undertaken after a faculty group, headed by Professor Truxal, had conducted a survey as to employee interest and had petitioned the Board of Trustees for the establishment for some form of hospitalization insurance under College auspices.