OREANDA-NEWS. On 02 July 2009 was announced, that an annual general meeting of shareholders of OJSC Medical Insurance Company Sheksna-M was held in Cherepovets.

A report on the company’s results for 2008 and priority directions of growth for 2009 was presented at the meeting. In particular, it was said that Medical Insurance Company Sheksna-M is the largest insurance company of the Vologda Region by the number of insured people and holds the top position among medical insurance companies of the North-West Federal District. In 2008 the company provided services of voluntary health insurance to 183,700 people and concluded 210 health care contracts with clinics and medical facilities. The voluntary health insurance premium growth rate in 2008 was 6.56 percent; the collected premium amounted to RUR 1.1 billion. Insurance compensations totaled RUR 941 million.

In 2008 OJSC MIC Sheksna-M provided compulsory health insurance to 966,100 people. The total amount of premium in this type of insurance grew by 27.4 percent to reach RUR 3.1 billion.

In 2008 OJSC MIC Sheksna-M collected RUR 4.19 billion in the form of insurance premium all in all. Insurance compensations totaled RUR 4.05 billion; net profit amounted to RUR 29.3 million.

Shareholders of OJSC MIC Sheksna-M approved the company’s 2008 annual report, accounting balance-sheet, and profit and loss statement.

Besides, shareholders of OJSC MIC Sheksna-M elected five members to form a new Board of Directors of the company. The following people were elected members of the Board of Directors: Anatoly Sokolov, General Director of OJSC IC Sheksna; Viktor Kondakov, Director of OJSC MIC Sheksna-M; Valery Valandin, Chief Accountant of OJSC SeverStal; Dmitry Tolstov, General Director of OJSC IC SOGAZ-Med; and Tamara Smirnova, Director for Personal Insurance of SOGAZ.

After the general meeting of shareholders was over, the Board of Directors of OJSC MIC Sheksna-M held a meeting where Dmitry Tolstov, Director General of OJSC IC SOGAZ-Med, was elected Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors.