- Synopsis, distributed by way of Club circular, provides extensive information on conditions of seafarer health encountered in various parts of the world.
- It also highlights substantial claims cost savings delivered by the program since its
inception in 2003. - The program had deflected illness and illness-related death claims to have a cumulative value of between $2.5 and $3.5 million per annum.
The American Club has today issued a circular attaching a detailed synopsis of the 2017 and 2018 results of its Pre-Employment Medical Examination (PEME) program and the cost savings which the program has generated since its inception in 2003, based on a press release.
Discussed about seafarer health
In a circular to Members, to which the synopsis was attached, the Club referred to the detail it contained on the conditions of seafarer health encountered in various parts of the world and, by analysing the collective results of the program over the years in question, how the program had created economic benefits for both Members and the Club which had resulted from its implementation.
Indeed, this analysis suggested that the program had deflected illness and illness-
related death claims to have a cumulative value of between $2.5 and $3.5 million per annum.
Health awareness among seafarers
The Club also noted that, in addition to this positive result in economic terms, the program had also had the related effect of instilling greater health awareness within the seafaring community with which the Club’s Members were involved.
Speaking in New York today, Dr. William Moore, the Club’s Global Loss Prevention Director, said: “The success of the American Club’s PEME program is due to the unwavering support it has enjoyed from the Club’s Members over the more than fifteen years since it began. The approved clinics, which implement the program in close cooperation with the Managers, are also to be congratulated for their efforts, as are Members’ manning agents for their commitment, too.”
Need for concomitant benefit
Speaking alongside Dr. Moore, Joe Hughes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the American Club’s Managers said: “While the claims cost savings generated by the program indicated in the report are a source of gratification to all who take advantage of them, a concomitant benefit has been to ensure that the seafarers whom Members employ are aware of their physical condition and take appropriate action to improve the management of their health both prior to, and during, their employment at sea.”
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Source: American-Club
