| BUPA stakes claim as number one for hospital negotiation
BUPA, Britain's largest medical insurer, has said that it is able to negotiate the most competitive prices with private hospitals in Britain. Ann Greenwood, BUPA's director of business markets, was responding to claims made by John Picken, chief executive of Medisure, that were published in Health Insurance earlier this year (Health Insurance , January 2007). Picken had called into question the assertion that the "negotiating clout" of the largest two providers in the UK PMI market – BUPA and AXA PPP healthcare – was one of the main factors in their success. Medisure has exclusive best pricing from BMI Healthcare, the largest private hospital group in the UK, Picken had said, adding that he doubted the "negotiating clout" claims of "certain big insurers".
Jet Airways to buy Air Sahara
The two Indian airlines will soon merge after a failed attempt last year, making the second biggest airline by fleet in the country.
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Fredericton art community happy with arbitration result
An arbitration hearing gave volunteers and corporate patrons of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton a reason to smile Monday. Arbitrator Peter Cory ruled Monday that 85 of 133 paintings at the centre of an ownership dispute belong to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton.(CBC) Retired Supreme Court Justice Peter Cory ruled Monday that 85 of the 133 paintings in the ownership dispute were gifts to the gallery by the late Lord Beaverbrook, and will remain in the gallery's hands. The gallery will also be compensated for three other paintings that were taken to England in 1976 and sold the next year. The Beaverbrook United Kingdom Foundation, a philanthropic group founded by Lord Beaverbrook and run by his grandson, Maxwell Aitken III, has maintained for the past three years that all 133 works of art, estimated to be worth $100 million, were only loaned to the gallery.
New twist in Air NZ outsourcing saga
The Service and Food Workers Union is seeking urgent mediation to deal with what it says is harassment of its members by managers at Air New Zealand.
The union's Northern Region Secretary Jill Ovens says managers have been systematically phoning members, and threatening them with dire consequences if they do not leave the union by Monday.
She says the company wants them to join the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union instead.
The EPMU recently accepted a deal to prevent ground service jobs being outsourced - some staff took pay cuts, while others received increases.
Jill Ovens believes the Air New Zealand managers have clearly been overstepping the line.
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