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Aetna

U.S. insurer founded in 1853.

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  1. Apology made for slave policies, Associated Press, via Las Vegas Sun, 9 Mar 2000. Scholarship & press
    “We express our deep regret over any participation at all in this deplorable practice.”
    Aetna, which noted that the slave policies were legal before slavery was abolished, said it plans to make no reparations.
    Aetna said its records show the company wrote no more than a dozen such policies to slave owners.
    “We have concluded that no further actions are required at this time,” Laberge said.
    Aetna has long acknowledged that for several years shortly after its founding in 1853 that the company may have insured the lives of slaves
  2. Aetna Acknowledges Issuing Slave Policies During 1850s, Offers Apology, Denies Reparations, Democracy Now!, 14 Mar 2000. Scholarship & press
    there’s limited and incomplete information on our archives on the extent of that participation
  3. In re Descendants of African Slavery, 02-MD-01491 (N.D. Ill.), Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, 31 Oct 2021. Scholarship & press
    Aetna Inc. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
    plaintiffs sued eighteen corporate defendants
    On January 26, 2004, Judge Norgle issued an order granting defendants' motion to dismiss.
    Judge Norgle dismissed with case without prejudice, granting Plaintiffs leave to file a second amended complaint.
    In an opinion issued December 13, 2006, Judge Richard Posner affirmed in part and reversed in part the District Court's ruling.
    Judge Posner rejected the district court's decision to bar Plaintiffs' consumer protection-based claims and remanded these claims back to district court for further proceedings.
    The Court denied both petitions.
    The last recorded activity on the docket occurred in 2011.
  4. Judge Throws Out Slavery Reparations Suit, NPR, 28 Jan 2004. Scholarship & press
    A federal judge dismisses a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for slavery from 19 defendants
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