Tuesday 6 November 2007

Now it's 'official'. The UNUM cat's out of the bag.

Readers tuning in to the BBC's Ten o-clock News last night will have seen the initial report on the questionable activities of UNUM (Provident or not), previously posted here. This initial report was produced by Mark Daley, who readers may remember for his 'Secret Policeman' expose of institutional racism in the Police Force, and his recent expose of Government failure to monitor and keep track of the many paedophiles who had gone missing.

Mark's initial report described UNUM's claims denial activities in the USA and the UK and used the same earlier posted quote from John Garamendi, the previous California Insurance Commissioner, who has described UNUM as an "outlaw company" who have acted in an "unlawful fashion" for many years.

In rebuttal of Mark's comments, UNUM put up Dr. Peter Dewis, UNUM customer relations, who tried to negate UNUM's past unlawful activities on the basis that it was all "part of history", and that they had moved on. It should be noted that he was displaying a marked perspirational discomfiture at the time. Probably the spot-light.

Unfortunately, Peter Dewis failed to mention the tens of thousands of legitimate claimants who had been disenfranchised as a result of UNUM's failure to pay out on their claims. many of whom have been unable to 'move on' as they have either died, waiting for payment, or have simply given up in despair, presumably, themselves, becoming part of UNUM's history.

Incidentally, Peter Dewis previously worked for sixteen years at the DWP as a close colleague of our local UNUM agent Prof. Mansel Aylward, and was instrumental in facilitating the introduction of the UNUM method of claims denial at the DWP.

The report also noted the clear and close involvement that UNUM has with the DWP. This involvement has previously been denied at Ministerial level and this leaves me a little perplexed. Could it be that they would wish to keep it a secret?

Edwina Hart AM, Assembly Health Minister, appears to have selected Prof. Aylward as her preferred person of 'stature and integrity', to oversee the NHS reconfiguration, on the basis of his CV, yet he has neither expertise in, nor experience of, NHS reform. In fact I would be surprised if she could find anyone around here with experience of any fully successful NHS reconfiguration.

One thing that he has expertise and experience of, is saving his masters a lot of money by reduction of service, or failure to provide, without any consideration for the consequences endured by the disenfranchised.

Maybe this is the quality that Edwina Hart seeks.

My previously posted 'alternative' CV for Mansel Aylward has been described by Huw Lewis AM as "defamation", yet Huw offers no response and refuses to address the matter.

As Huw has made the following statement in the Assembly:

"Might we consider that Professor Aylward could move on, after this work, to oversee the overall reconfiguration of services throughout the whole trust area?"

Bearing in mind this BBC report, I think that Huw owes the public a statement on the oft asked, but never answered question:

" Please provide your observations on governmental association with a company that has been described as an "outlaw company", that has operated in an "unlawful fashion" for years".

If any of Huw's pals read this posting, please ask him to drop by and make some sort of response. My reader awaits.

Better still, how about a statement in the Assembly giving a straight answer to the above question. His public awaits.

Your post-provident pal.

johnny.

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7 Comments:

At 9 November 2007 at 16:26 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello there Johnny,

I am glad to see that there are others out there interested in UNUM, Aylward and the significance of the BBC News investigation by Mark Daly.

You might be interested in the writings of Professor Malcolm Hooper and Margaret Williams.

One article can be found here on my website....

http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/HOOPER_CONCERNS_ABOUT_A_COMMERCIAL_CONFLICT_OF_INTEREST.htm

Another can be found here....

http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/Notes_on_the_Insurance_issue_in_ME.htm

And there are plenty of others where that came from.

There are three other key individuals that all require some further research and these are Prfoessor Peter White, Professor Michael Sharpe and Professor Simon Wessely.

All three are colleagues of Aylward and all three have their finger prints all over UNUM.

All have exploitative interests in Medically Unexplained Symptoms that they claim includes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

It seems to me that all the dots need joining together and Mark Daly has a great deal of interesting reading ahead of him.

 
At 13 November 2007 at 21:17 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

So why dont our political programmes pick any of these issues up -- they seem gutless wonders execept for mai and they put her on at 11.30 in the night.
Bring back David Williams

 
At 14 November 2007 at 00:43 , Blogger johnny foreigner said...

Hello Stephen.

Nice to meet another 'seeker after truth' on the blogmosphere.

I have come across the Wessley School of thought before and find that their particular findings are not universally accepted, particularly regarding MS/CFS. The whole UNUM ethos seems to revolve around their particular brand of 'medicine'.

I have visited your website previously during my researches and thank you for the amount of useful information that you have provided.

Please call back anytime as the UNUM question is just not going to go away.

Your pal.

johnny.

 
At 14 November 2007 at 01:19 , Blogger johnny foreigner said...

yoyoy said.....

"So why don't our political programmes pick any of these issues up".

johnny says.....

My thoughts precisely.

I am personally aware of a number of journalists who have become aware of the issues surrounding UNUM, the DWP and the Assembly yet they somehow seem reluctant to probe too far. Could it be that 'dark forces' are at work? I do hope so, as I'm not afraid of the dark.

Mark Daly's initial venture into the UNUM question will hopefully encourage others to take up the challenge.

I have every confidence that this matter, now that it has surfaced, will be discussed on a number of fora and will hopefully make the public more aware of the activities.

The main question still remains:

"Please provide your observations on governmental association with a company that has been described as an "outlaw company", that has operated in an "unlawful fashion" for years".

It must be noted at this time that this question was originally directed at Huw Lewis or any of his pals. No answer was the stern reply. I wonder why?

Your pal.

johnny.

 
At 17 November 2007 at 00:36 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

scared shit may be =or not bright enuff to make a comment
Try asking his wife she's the mouthpiece

 
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At 16 January 2011 at 18:03 , Blogger oerganix said...

Johnny, where have you gone? We need your voice now more than ever.

See my blog entry on UNUM:

http://biomedicalmecfs.blogspot.com/2011/01/unum-is-still-doing-it-to-disabled.html

 

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