Aetna notifying lawsuit winners of its bowout

The 49 Beacon Journal retirees who won the healthcare lawsuit are being notified by Aetna that their Aetna Medicare Plan (PPO) and prescription drug coverage will cease, starting Jan. 1, 2013.

Membership cards for United Healthcare AARP Medicare Supplement Plan N for medical coverage and $2 and $5 prescription co-pay cards from Medical Mutual of Ohio arrived previously. These plans will kick in Jan. 1, restoring  eligible printer and Guild retirees to their approximate retirement-day medical and prescription coverage.

Eligible are Gina White, of Venice, Florida, who with the late Dave White, her husband, began the lawsuit on behalf of the printers; Bob and Linda Abbott, Massillon; Ruth and Tom West, Rittman; Hugh and Sharon Downing, The Villages, Florida; Larnie and Stephanie Greene, Hartville; Joe Catalano, Akron; Lloyd and Claudine Bigelow, Cuyahoga Falls; John Costello, Akron; Dick Gresock, Medina; Henry and Kathleen Heinbuck, North Canton; Denzil Parker, Wadsworth; Francis and Rita Reeves, Akron; Bob Walker, Medina; Cecil and Josephine Santaferro, Akron; Sid Sprague, Loveland, Colorado; Isabel Watson (Blanton’s widow), Naples, Florida; Janice Hogg (Trammel’s widow), Waynesville, North Carolina; Russ and Martel Bendel, Wadsworth; Eunice and Bonnie Collins, Copley; Richard and Patricia Fair, Akron; Marjorie Hanna, Wadsworth; Ed Hanzel, Barberton; Bob Kendall, Berlin Center; Harriet Ledbetter, Canton; Norm and Naomi Mattern, Wellsville; Charles O’Neill, Akron; Fred Pollack, Akron; Don Reppart, North Canton; Ron Sanderlin, Canton; Charles Stadelman, Tallmadge; and Ray and Amaryllis Wolfe, Greentown.

Eligible on the Guild side are John Olesky, of Tallmadge, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Guild retirees; retired reporter Dick McBane, Lilburn, Georgia; maintenance retiree Harold Bailey and wife Elizabeth, Kent; copy desk retiree Dick McLinden, North Canton, and retired photographer Don Roese, Cuyahoga Falls.

If your name is on either list and you haven’t received the Aetna notification or membership cards for United Healthcare AARP Medicare Supplement Plan N or the $2 or $5 prescription co-pay, contact BJ Settlement Administrator Roger Messmore, BJ Comptroller.