Dr Marius Barnard

g6 Adam Hendrikus * 20.3.1875 ≈ Knysna 27.4.1875, sendeling x Robertson c. 1910 Maria Elizabeth DE SWARDT * 27.12.1884 d.v. Abraham Jacobus de Swardt en Magdalena Sophia Lamprecht

h4 Marius Stephanus * Beaufort-Wes 3.11.1927 x Worcester 1.12.1952 Inez NAUDÉ * 29.7.1930

Marius Barnard is a South African cardiac surgeon and inventor of critical illness insurance. Barnard was a member of the team, headed by his brother Christiaan Barnard, that performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant. Barnard was motivated by the financial hardship he saw his patients suffer after he had treated their critical illnesses to convince the South African insurance companies to introduce a new type of insurance to cover critical illnesses. Barnard argued that, as a medical doctor, he can repair a man physically, but only insurers can repair a patient's finances. On 6 October 1983 the first critical illness insurance policy was launched