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You can run but you can't hide may refer to:
"He can run, but he can't hide", a statement attributed to American boxer Joe Louis
You Can Run But You Can't Hide, a book by Duane "Dog" Chapman
You Can Run (But You Can't Hide), a 1979 song by (The) Razz, co-written by Tommy Keene
You Can Run But You Can't Hide, a 2001 song from Girl Thing's Girl Thing
You Can Run But You Can't Hide (Podes Fugir Mas Não Te Podes Esconder), a 2001 album by Da Weasel
You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, a Christian youth ministry based in Minnesota
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You can click, but you can't hide, a campaign against peer-to-peer file sharing of films
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Anthem (company)
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Anthem, Inc.
Type
Public
Traded as
NYSE: ANTM
S&P 500 Component
Industry
Managed health care
Founded
Anthem Insurance and WellPoint Health Networks merger in 2004
Headquarters
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Key people
Joseph R. Swedish
(Executive Chairman)
Gail Koziara Boudreaux
(President and CEO)
Products
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Revenue
US$ 90.039 billion (2017)
Operating income
US$ 3.964 billion (2017)
Net income
US$ 3.843 billion (2017)
Total assets
US$ 70.540 billion (2017)
Total equity
US$ 26.503 billion (2017)
Number of employees
~56,000 (2017)
Website
antheminc.com
Footnotes / references
[1]
Company headquarters on Monument Circle in Indianapolis
Anthem, Inc. is an American health insurance company founded in the 1940s, prior to 2014 known as WellPoint, Inc. It is the largest for-profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. It was formed when Anthem Insurance Company acquired WellPoint Health Networks, Inc., with the combined company adopting the name WellPoint, Inc.; trading on the NYSE for the combined company began under the WLP symbol on December 1, 2004. On December 3, 2014, WellPoint changed its corporate name to Anthem Inc., and its NYSE ticker changed from WLP to ANTM.[2][3]
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Anthem Insurance Company
2 Timeline
2.1 Anthem/Associated Insurance
2.2 The Associated Group
2.3 Anthem Blue Cross
2.4 Anthem Insurance Company
2.5 Blue Cross of California
2.6 WellPoint Health Networks
2.7 WellPoint, Inc.
2.8 Anthem name revived
3 Quality of care
4 Controversies
4.1 Giving for uninsured
4.2 Policy cancellations
4.3 Opposition to health care reform
4.4 2009 premium increase in Maine
4.5 2010 premium increase in California
4.6 Reclassifying expenses
4.7 2009-10 security breach
4.8 Denying benefits
4.9 2015 medical data breach
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
History[edit]
Anthem Insurance Company[edit]
Anthem Insurance Company grew out of two Indianapolis, Indiana based mutual insurance companies, Mutual Hospital Insurance Inc. and Mutual Medical Insurance Inc. formed in 1944 and 1946.[4] The companies grew significantly, controlling 80% of the medical insurance market in Indiana by the 1970s. In 1972 they came together to create a joint operating agreement,[5] and merged in 1985 as parent company, Associated Insurance Companies, Inc, to form Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana.[5][6][7]
In 1986 Associated Insurance Companies changed its name to The Associated Group (TAG) to reflect its expanded focus,[6] and began heavily expanding outside Indiana, acquiring numerous insurance companies and creating new subsidiaries throughout the late 1980s through the mid-1990s.
Formerly Anthem Inc. was an insurance company which began in the 1980s as a spin-off of the group insurance operations of American General Insurance.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield was created as part of the merger of The Associated Group with Community Mutual Insurance Co. of Cincinnati.[8]
From its move to a publicly traded company in 2001 until its final merger in 2004, it merged the Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations of several states to achieve economy of scale, converting them in the process from non-profit to for-profit status. In late 2004, Anthem and WellPoint merged, with the combined company taking the WellPoint name. That Anthem no longer exists as a company, but the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand name is used by WellPoint in 11 states.
In October 2001, Anthem demutualized and conducted an initial public offering of common stock. WellPoint, Inc. (formerly Anthem, Inc.) was formed when WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and Anthem, Inc. merged in 2004 to become the nation's leading health benefits company.
WellPoint Health Network Inc.'s predecessor was Blue Cross of California, which was founded in 1982 with the consolidation of Blue Cross of Northern California (established in 1936) and Blue Cross of Southern California (established in 1937). WellPoint was formed in 1992 to operate Blue Cross of California's managed care business. In 1993, Blue Cross of California spun off its managed care business into a separate publicly traded entity, WellPoint Health Networks Inc. In 1996, Blue Cross of California completed the conversion of all its business to for-profit status, resulting in a restructuring that designated WellPoint Health Networks Inc. as the parent organization. Anthem and WellPoint achieved a portion of this growth through mergers and acquisitions.
Wellpoint, Inc. was formed in November 2004 following a merger of Anthem and WellPoint Health Networks Inc.[4] The merger was structured as Anthem acquiring WellPoint Health Networks and rebranding itself WellPoint, Inc. When the deal was originally announced in October 2003, the merger was set at $16.5 billion.[9] The fair market value of the merger when completed in December 2004 was approximately $20.8 billion.[9] At the time of the merger's completion, WellPoint was the largest American insurer.[9]
In December 2014: WellPoint changed its corporate name to Anthem Inc..
Timeline[edit]
Anthem/Associated Insurance[edit]
1940s: Anthem began in Indianapolis, Indiana as Mutual Hospital Insurance Inc. and Mutual Medical Insurance Inc.[4] The companies grew significantly, controlling 80% of the medical insurance market in Indiana by the 1970s.[4]
1972: The two firms, now known as Blue Cross of Indiana and Blue Shield of Indiana, entered into a joint operating agreement.[5]
1980s: Anthem Inc. began as an insurance company as a spin-off of the group insurance operations of American General Insurance.[8]
1985: The two merged into Associated Insurance Companies, Inc, a holding company.[6][7] But usage of the name "Anthem" persisted.
1986: Associated Insurance Companies began expanding outside of Indiana, acquiring numerous insurance companies and creating new subsidiaries.[4][6] It changed its name to The Associated Group to coincide with its expanded focus.[6] Associated Insurance's acquisitions included Anthem Health, Inc., a national company offering group life and health insurance; Raffensperger, Hughes & Co., Inc., Indiana's largest investment bank; and the Shelby Insurance Co., a property and casualty insurance business.[4]
The Associated Group[edit]
1989: The Associated Group founded Acordia, a brokerage that sold and serviced insurance and employee benefit programs.[4][10]
1992: The Associated Group absorbed Acordia.[5]
1993: Acordia acquired American Business Insurance for $130 million and the Federal Kemper Insurance Company for $100 million.[4] The Associated Group bought Southeastern Mutual Insurance Company, the operator of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kentucky.[4][11] The deal was the first cross-state merger of major Blues plans in America.[4] By the end of 1993, Associated Insurance posted annual profits of $65.4 million with $3.4 billion in revenue.[4]
1995: The Associated Group acquired Community Mutual Insurance (a provider of Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance plans in Ohio with over 1.9 million policy holders), then set up Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield under which it offered its Blue Cross Blue Shield products to consumers.[4][7]
1996: The Associated Group changed its name to Anthem Insurance Company.[8]
Anthem Blue Cross[edit]
Anthem Blue Cross (in full 'Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield') is a subsidiary of insurance giant Anthem Inc.. Anthem has about 800,000 customers, and has more individual policyholders in California than any other insurer. It is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association based in Thousand Oaks, California.[12] Wellpoint had a net income of $2.49 billion in 2008, and $4.7 billion in 2009.[13] Leslie Margolin became Anthem Blue Cross's company president in January 2008, and also was chief executive officer of the firm’s Life and Health affiliate. Joseph Swedish is currently chief executive officer of the company.[14]
The logo of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
Anthem Insurance Company[edit]
1996: Anthem began to focus exclusively on healthcare benefits.[4]
1997: Anthem acquired Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut.[4] It also sold Acordia to a group of private investors.[10]
1999: Anthem acquired Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado and Nevada. The acquisitions made since 1996 added 850,000 policy holders. Anthem Group's revenue had grown to $6.3 billion. Among its customer base were 2.4 million PPO and 964,000 HMO enrollees[4]
2000: Anthem acquired Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maine.
2001: In October, Anthem converted from a mutual insurance company to a publicly held stock company, which made it the 4th largest public managed health care company in the United States.[4]
2002: Anthem acquired Trigon Healthcare of Virginia, a Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan, the largest insurer in Virginia, for $4.04 billion. Associated Insurance reached 11.9 million members
Blue Cross of California[edit]
Blue Cross of California was WellPoint Health Network Inc.'s predecessor
1982: Blue Cross of California was founded with the consolidation of Blue Cross of Northern California (established in 1936) and Blue Cross of Southern California (established in 1937).
1992: WellPoint was formed to operate Blue Cross of California's managed care business.
1993: In January, Blue Cross of California spun off its managed care business into a separate publicly traded entity, WellPoint Health Networks Inc.[15] Blue Cross of California retained 80% of the company stock and had "nearly all" of the company's voting shares.[16]
1996: Blue Cross of California completed the conversion of all its business to for-profit status, resulting in a restructuring that designated WellPoint Health Networks Inc. as the parent organization. After this, WellPoint Health Networks Inc. began heavy expansion.
WellPoint Health Networks[edit]
1996: In April, WellPoint completed its acquisition of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's group life and health insurance subsidiaries for approximately $380 million.[17] With the acquisition, WellPoint had nearly 4 million policy holders, which made it the second largest publicly held managed health company in the US.[4] WellPoint continued its expansion and acquired businesses in ten other states, including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and offered life, disability, and dental insurance to all its rosters.[4]
1997: In March, WellPoint acquired the group health and life businesses of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. for $86.7 million.[18] With this acquisition, WellPoint expanded its presence into Michigan, Texas, and the mid-Atlantic, and gained a unit that concentrated on serving the needs of large employers.[4]
2000: Wellpoint's net income was $342.3 million with revenues of $9.23 billion.[4] WellPoint acquired PrecisionRx, a mail service pharmacy fulfillment center in Texas.
2001, WellPoint acquired Rush Prudential Health Plans, a Chicago provider, for $204 million.[19] In March, WellPoint acquired Cerulean Companies, the parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia.[4]
2002: WellPoint acquired RightChoice Managed Care, a Missouri-based company, for $1.5 billion.[4] WellPoint also acquired MethodistCare in Houston, Texas[4] and HealthLink in the mid-West.
2003: WellPoint acquired Golden West Dental and Vision in Camarillo, California, and Cobalt Corp. and its family of companies, including Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin. In October, Anthem announced it would acquire WellPoint Health Networks for $16.5 billion.[9]
WellPoint, Inc.[edit]
2004: Wellpoint, Inc. was formed in November by the merger of Anthem Insurance Company and WellPoint Health Networks Inc.[4] The merger was structured as Anthem acquiring WellPoint Health Networks and renaming itself WellPoint, Inc. When the deal was originally announced in October 2003, the merger was set at $16.5 billion.[9] WellPoint continued to use 'Anthem' as the brand name under which it operated. It sold its Blue Cross and Blue Shield products in 11 states.[20] The merger was completed in December.[9] The fair market value of the acquisition at time of its completion was approximately $20.8 billion.[9] The newly merged company was renamed WellPoint, Inc.[9]
2005: WellPoint acquired Alexandria, Va.-based Lumenos, a provider of consumer-driven health plans, for $185 million.[21] Lumenos was the pioneer and market leader in consumer-driven health plans. In December, WellPoint acquired WellChoice, a New York-based Blue Cross Blue Shield provider, for approximately $6.5 billion,[22] making New York the 14th state in which WellPoint is a Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee.
2007: WellPoint acquired Chicago-based American Imaging Management, the leading radiology benefit management company, that creates software to help physicians choose cost-effective locations for their patients to receive medical imaging tests.[23] WellPoint also acquired Chicago based American Imaging Management (AIM), the leading radiology benefit management company.
2008: WellPoint acquired Resolution Health, a firm that analyzes patient history for potential medical problems such as adverse drug interactions.[24]
2009: WellPoint acquired DeCare Dental, a dental insurance firm.[25]
2011: WellPoint acquired CareMore, a Cerritos, California-based company that provides insurance and care centers for elderly patients.[26]
2012: WellPoint acquired Amerigroup for $4.9 billion, anticipating significant revenue growth due to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.[4][27][28][29]
2014: On August 13, WellPoint announced it intended to change its name to Anthem, Inc.[2]
Anthem name revived[edit]
2014: In December, WellPoint changed its corporate name to Anthem Inc. and its NYSE ticker symbol from WLP to ANTM.[2][3] In that same month, it announced that it would acquire Simply Healthcare Holdings, Inc., a leading Medicaid and Medicare managed care company in Florida.[30]
2015: In June, Anthem announced an offer to acquire Cigna, a global health insurance service company, for more than $47 billion in cash and stock.[31] In July, Anthem and Cigna announced they had entered into a definitive agreement, valuing the transaction at $54.2 billion on an enterprise basis.[32]
February 2017: A US District Court ruling blocked the Cigna merger on anticompetitive grounds.[33] On February 14, Cigna Corp. called off its $48 billion merger agreement with Anthem Inc., with Anthem stating it would "continue to enforce its rights under the merger agreement and remains committed to closing the transaction."[34]
October 2017: Anthem said it would not renew its pharmacy benefit management relationship with Express Scripts saying Express had overcharged it $3 billion and that it would eventually handle the PBM process itself through its new IngenioRx unit. The Express Scripts contract expires in 2019 and Anthem said it would enter a 5-year contract with CVS Health.[35] Ironically Cigna in March 2018 announced plans to acquire Express Scripts for $58 billion.[36]
Quality of care[edit]
In the category of "Meeting National Standards of Care" California's state patient advocacy office gave Anthem a rating of 2 out of 4 stars in its 2011 annual report card.[37] In 2014 it received 3 out of 4 stars in the same category.[38]
Controversies[edit]
Giving for uninsured[edit]
In 2007, WellPoint pledged to spend $30 million over three years, through the company's charitable foundation, to help the uninsured. In March 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported that WellPoint's tax records and website showed that the company gave only $6.2 million by 2009. The company disputed that, saying that the foundation did fulfill its $30-million commitment by mid-2009, but declined to provide any financial details to support its position.[39]
Policy cancellations[edit]
In 2007, the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), a California state regulatory agency, investigated Anthem Blue Cross's policies for revoking (rescinding) health care insurance policies. The DMHC randomly selected 90 instances where Anthem Blue Cross canceled the insurance of policy holders who had been diagnosed with costly or life-threatening illnesses, to find how many of these cancellations were legal. The agency concluded that all these cancellations were illegal. "In all 90 files, there was no evidence [that Blue Cross], before rescinding coverage, investigated or established that the applicant's omission/misrepresentation was willful," the DMHC report said.[40][41]
In July 2008, Anthem Blue Cross agreed to a settlement with the California Department of Managed Health Care. To resolve allegations of improper policy rescissions (cancellations), WellPoint paid $10 million and reinstated 1,770 policy-holders whose plans they had cancelled. They also agreed to provide compensation for any medical debts incurred by these policy-holders in the meantime. However, WellPoint did not officially admit liability.
In April 2010, a report in Reuters alleged that Wellpoint "using a computer algorithm, identified women recently diagnosed with breast cancer and then singled them out for cancellation of their policies."[42][43] The story not only caused considerable public outrage, but led Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, and President Barack Obama, to call on WellPoint to end the practice.[44]
In 2011 Anthem Blue Cross began cancelling policies of members who had been paying premiums with credit cards, sometimes without calling or emailing the member ahead of time.[45]
Opposition to health care reform[edit]
The former Vice President for Public Policy and External Affairs at WellPoint, Elizabeth Fowler, is the Senior Counsel to Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a leading opponent of the public option in health care reform.[46]
In August 2009, WellPoint’s Anthem Blue Cross unit, the largest for-profit insurer in California, contacted its employees and urged them to get involved to oppose Congress' plan for health care reform. Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit watchdog organization in Santa Monica, asked California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown to investigate its claim that WellPoint had illegally pushed workers to write to their elected officials, attend town hall meetings and enlist family and friends to ensure an overhaul that matches the firm’s interests. According to Consumer Watchdog, California's labor code directly prohibits coercive communications, including forbidding employers from controlling, coercing or influencing employees' political activities or affiliations. WellPoint had not been contacted by the California attorney general and had not seen any complaint.[47]
Through 2010 and into 2011, WellPoint senior executives met monthly with executives of other major health insurers to blunt the effect of the health care reform law.[48]
2009 premium increase in Maine[edit]
In 2009, Anthem Health Plans of Maine, a WellPoint subsidiary, sued the state of Maine for the right to increase premiums further.[49] Since Maine licenses insurance companies through its Department of Insurance, Anthem would need the state's permission to raise rates.[50] The Court disagreed with Anthem and found that, unlike other forms of insurance, the Maine Insurance Code does not require the Superintendent to consider profits at all.[51]
2010 premium increase in California[edit]
In February 2010, WellPoint announced that some Anthem Blue Cross individual policies in California would see a rate increase as high as 39%. This announcement resulted in an investigation by the US Federal and California government regulators.[12] Because of this, Anthem Blue Cross gained worldwide media attention and became a poster child for the problem of rising US health costs, when it announced that it was raising rates on some individual policy holders by as much as 39% as of March 2010.[12] The rate increase came one year after Anthem had raised rates 68% on individual policy holders.[52] This announcement resulted in an investigation by the US Federal and California government regulators.[12]
To explain the latest rate increases, some which were four times the rate of medical inflation, Anthem said the company has experienced a death spiral, as unemployment and declining wages led healthy customers to drop their insurance, the remaining risk pool becomes sicker and more expensive to insure, and, in turn, prices are forced up and push more people out of the market.[53]
In response to the outrage from politicians and consumers, Anthem postponed the rate increase until May 1, 2010.[54] Given Anthem’s rate increase plans, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democratic Senator of California, has proposed giving the federal government authority to block insurance premium hikes considered to be "unjustified".[55]
Reclassifying expenses[edit]
On 17 March 2010, WellPoint announced it was reclassifying some of its administrative costs as medical care costs in order to meet new loss ratio requirements under the health care law, which requires insurers to spend at least 80% or 85% of customer premiums on health care services, depending on the type of plan.[56]
2009-10 security breach[edit]
In June 2010, Anthem sent letters to 230,000 customers in California warning them that their personal data might have been accessed online. After a routine upgrade in October 2009, a third-party vendor stated that all security measures had been properly reinstated, when in fact they had not. As a result, personal information of thousands of coverage applicants who were under the age of 65 was exposed in the open. After a Los Angeles-area woman found that her application for coverage was publicly available, she filed a class-action lawsuit against Anthem. While gathering evidence for the proceeding, the woman's lawyers downloaded some confidential customer information from Anthem's website and alerted Anthem about the breach. According to the lawyers, confidential information had remained out in the open for five months.[57][58]
Denying benefits[edit]
In May 2014, Anthem Blue Cross refused to pay for the hospitalization of a Sonoma County, California man for stage four cancers, although he had paid Anthem over $100,000.00 in premiums.[59][60] Anthem ended up paying for coverage following public outcry.[61]
2015 medical data breach[edit]
Main article: Anthem medical data breach
On February 4, 2015, Anthem, Inc. disclosed that criminal hackers had broken into its servers and potentially stolen over 37.5 million records that contain personally identifiable information from its servers. According to Anthem, Inc., the data breach extended into multiple brands Anthem, Inc. uses to market its healthcare plans, including, Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Amerigroup, Caremore, and UniCare.[62] Healthlink says it was also a victim.[63] Anthem says the medical information and financial data was not compromised. Anthem has offered free credit monitoring in the wake of the breach.[64] According to Bloomberg News, China may be responsible for this data breach. Michael Daniel, chief adviser on cybersecurity for President Barack Obama, said he would be changing his own password.[65] According to The New York Times about 80 million company records were hacked, and there is fear that the stolen data will be used for identity theft.[66] On February 7, 2015 Elizabeth Weise wrote in USA Today that the compromised information contained names, birthdays, medical IDs, social security numbers, street addresses, e-mail addresses and employment information, including income data.[67]
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Further reading[edit]
International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 25. St. James Press, 1999
Anders, George, "Blue Cross of California Sells Stake in WellPoint Health for $476 Million," Wall Street Journal, January 28, 1993.
Connolly, Jim, "California Blue Cross Plans to Start For-Profit Sub," National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition, September 14, 1992.
External links[edit]
Anthem Inc. Website
Business data for Anthem Inc.: Google Finance
Yahoo! Finance
Reuters
SEC filings
Article about unethical practices of Blue Cross of California
Sourcewatch profile
Center for Responsive politics profile (Blue Cross/WellPoint)
Investors
Anthem Insurance and Anthem Blue Cross web site
Blue Cross Blue Shield national web site
Summary of Anthem rate increase news [1]
Center for Responsive politics profile (Blue Cross/WellPoint)- www.opensecrets.org
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Richard Benjamin Harrison
Born
Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr.
(1941-03-04)March 4, 1941
Danville, Virginia, U.S.
Died
June 25, 2018(2018-06-25) (aged 77)
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Other names
The Old Man (nickname)
The Appraiser
Benny[1]
Occupation
Businessman
Reality television personality
Years active
1988–2018
Spouse(s)
Joanne Rhue (m. 1960)
Children
4, including Richard Kevin Harrison[2]
Website
gspawn.com
Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr. (March 4, 1941 – June 25, 2018), also known by the nicknames The Old Man and The Appraiser, was an American businessman and reality television personality, best known as the co-owner of the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, as featured on the History Channel series Pawn Stars. Harrison was the co-owner of the pawn shop with his son Rick Harrison. They opened the store together in 1989.[3][4]
Harrison was usually referred to by his nickname, "The Old Man",[5][6] which he earned at the age of 38.[7]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Marriage and the Navy
3 Business career
4 Awards and recognition
5 Other appearances
6 Legal issues
6.1 Daniel Callahan
6.2 Interference with business practices
7 Personal life and death
8 References
9 External links
Early life[edit]
Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr.[8][9] was born in Danville, Virginia, on March 4, 1941,[10] and was of Irish descent.[11] Harrison's grandson, Corey, has mentioned his grandmother said they are related to Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison. Harrison indicated that he did not give much credence to this idea.[12][13]
When Harrison was one year old, his family moved to Lexington, North Carolina, where they lived at 115 Peacock Avenue, just off South Main Street.[1][10] Harrison attended Lexington High School, but left during his junior year.[14] Harrison's family was poor, and to make money, Harrison drove a school bus when he was 14, parking the bus at his house every night, and getting up early in the morning to pick up the schoolchildren, for which he was paid five or six dollars a week.[15]
Marriage and the Navy[edit]
Harrison achieved the rank of petty officer first class while serving in the United States Navy.
When he was 17, Harrison attended a barn dance, where he met his future wife, Joanne Rhue, the daughter of Joseph Rhue,[16] a county judge, who later became one of the lead attorneys for Philip Morris in North Carolina.[15] They married in 1960.[16] Before they married, however, Harrison stole a car, and after he was arrested, was given a choice by the judge to go to prison or the military. Harrison chose the latter.[15] JoAnne became pregnant with their first child immediately after they married, and Sherry, their first child, was born with Down syndrome. They also had three sons, Joseph, Rick, and Chris. Harrison left the Navy in February 1962, but re-enlisted fourteen months later in order to obtain the health care benefits necessary to meet Sherry's medical expenses. She died when she was six years old.[15]
Harrison ultimately served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years,[1][15][17] including stints as a paymaster, and attaining the rank of petty officer first class. Harrison served on four ships, including his final five years on fleet tug ATF 100 USS Chowanoc,[18][19] from 1972 to 1976.[20]
In 1967 Harrison was transferred by the Navy to San Diego, California.[15] He continued to serve in the Navy, while JoAnne obtained her real estate license in 1970 and opened her own office in 1973. After Harrison was discharged from the Navy, he worked part-time in his wife's office. Declining real estate sales caused by interest rates as high as 18 percent cost Harrison $1,000,000 and the collapse of this business in 1981.[21]
Business career[edit]
In April 1981, Harrison and his wife, having only $5,000 left, moved with their three sons to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Harrison and his son Rick opened Gold & Silver Coin Shop in a 300 square foot shop at 1501 Las Vegas Boulevard. In 1986, he relocated the business to a larger building at 413 Fremont Street. In 1987, he obtained a license to buy and sell second-hand goods. The business's lease expired in 1988.[2]
In 1989, Rick opened what would become the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop at 713 Las Vegas Boulevard South, located less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip.[2][3] The most common item brought into the store is jewelry.[22] As of July 2011, the store had 12,000 items in its inventory,[23] 5,000 of which are typically held on pawn.[24] Even when absent from the show, according to an episode of Pawn Stars, Harrison usually was the first to arrive at the shop in the morning,[25] and by 2010, had not had a sick day since 1994.[26]
From July 19, 2009 until his death, Harrison and his son Rick, along with his grandson Richard Corey "Big Hoss" Harrison[27] and Corey's childhood friend and employee Austin "Chumlee" Russell, starred in the reality television program Pawn Stars on the History Channel. Harrison was depicted as saying little and easily angered. Chumlee has stated that he is "old and cranky",[28] while Harrison himself indicates: "My role on the show is to be an old grump."[29] Within ten weeks of its debut, Pawn Stars was the highest-rated program on the History Channel,[30] and second highest-rated reality show program behind Jersey Shore.[31] In that same period, the average number of customers in the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop increased from 70 to 700 per day.[30] By February 2012, between 3,000 and 5,000 people visited the store each day.[32]
In 2014 Harrison's net worth was estimated to be $5 million USD.[33][unreliable source?]
Awards and recognition[edit]
In March 2010, Harrison, his son, grandson and Austin "Chumlee" Russell were awarded the key to the city of Las Vegas by Mayor Oscar Goodman.[34]
Harrison and the other stars of Pawn Stars served as grand marshals for the History 300 NASCAR race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2012.[35]
On May 29, 2012, Harrison was awarded a key to the city of Lexington, his hometown, by Lexington Mayor Clark Newell, in the Lexington City Council Chamber, and the day was also officially "Richard Harrison's Day".[36][37][38]
On July 17, 2012, the Clark County Commission declared that day to be "Pawn Stars/Gold & Silver Pawn Day". At the Commission meeting, Harrison donated $1000 to the Clark County Museum, and lent the U.S. Senate floor chair used by Senator Patrick McCarran (sold to the Gold and Silver in the Pawn Stars episode "Take a Seat") to the museum as part of a display on Senator McCarran.[39]
Harrison and his son Rick were nominated for the 2012 Time 100 list.[40]
Other appearances[edit]
On December 5, 2011, Harrison made a special appearance at the American Country Awards 2011, giving a speech onstage.[41]
On February 25, 2012, he was a guest star at a Celebrity Bingo Bow Wow charity event, which was held at the Silverton Casino Lodge.[42]
Legal issues[edit]
Daniel Callahan[edit]
In May 2012, Daniel Callahan filed a lawsuit in the District Court in Las Vegas claiming that Harrison and his son Rick failed to provide "reasonable and necessary" security at their store, seeking around $20,000 for injuries he allegedly suffered from being "dragged out of the pawn shop and tossed onto the sidewalk" after an argument over a rifle he had brought. Harrison's grandson, Corey, defended them both, stating that they were never in direct contact with Callahan and "it was in our best interests to get him out of there."[43]
Interference with business practices[edit]
In October 2012, A&E Network and the History Channel, along with Harrison and the rest of the show's cast, were sued in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas for interference with business practices by Wayne F. Jefferies,[44] a Las Vegas promoter[45] and the Harrisons' manager, who represented them and "Chumlee" Russell in their television business dealings.[46] Jefferies, who managed and operated the Las Vegas world cuisine restaurant Seven in 2001,[47] and who, as an event promoter, put up to $75,000 in support of the 2005 and 2006 Las Vegas Red, White and Boom Independence Day event,[48][49] was instrumental in helping to launch the series.[50][51] Jefferies stated that after the show premiered, his influence in the show was increasingly reduced, and that he was ultimately fired and left without his promised share of fees and merchandising royalties from the series, purportedly due to network executives after a January 2012 report on TMZ that indicated that the Pawn Stars cast were taken aback by the History Channel's launch of the spinoff Cajun Pawn Stars, of which the cast had been unaware.[45][52]
Personal life and death[edit]
Harrison was particularly passionate about automobiles, showing an interest in all types of cars.[53] Cars he owned or expressed an interest in on the television series include his 1966 Imperial Crown, which took him fifteen years to convince the previous owner to sell,[54][55] and was subsequently restored by his son and grandson for his 50th wedding anniversary;[56] a 1957 Chevy 150 sedan given to him by the stars of two other History shows, American Restoration and American Pickers;[55] and the mid-1960s B&Z Electra-King electric car shown to them in Pawn Stars season 3 episode 14 ("Honest Abe"), which he suggested could be converted into a golf cart.[57]
Harrison died on June 25, 2018, after a battle with Parkinson's disease.[58][59] His funeral was held July 1, with his casket draped in an American flag on account of his service in the Navy. His son Rick eulogized him thus: "He was my hero and I was fortunate to get a very cool ‘Old Man’ as my dad. That I got to share him with so many others and they got to see what a great family man he was is something I am grateful to have experienced with him." Harrison was survived by wife JoAnne, three sons, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.[60] Harrison placed his son Rick in charge of his estate. Christopher Keith Harrison, the youngest of Harrison's three sons, was intentionally omitted as a beneficiary in his father’s will.[61][62] Following his death, Pawn Stars ran a commemorative episode, "A Treasure Remembered", featuring clips from the show and interviews about him. In the episode, a family photograph is briefly shown; Christopher's face is blurred out.[63]
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Jump up ^ Savitsky, Sasha (June 26, 2018). "Richard 'Old Man' Harrison of 'Pawn Stars' dead at 77". Fox News.
Jump up ^ Corriton, Michele (July 2, 2018). "Pawn Stars' Richard 'Old Man' Harrison Laid to Rest at Las Vegas Funeral". People.
Jump up ^ Katsilometes, John (July 18, 2018). "‘Old Man’ Harrison of ‘Pawn Stars’ cuts 1 son out of his will". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Jump up ^ https://www.newsweek.com/christopher-keith-harrison-who-pawn-stars-richard-rick-cut-will-1031520
Jump up ^ S15E30, "A Treasure Remembered"
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