Daily Archive for May 31st, 2007

Kenneth Kizer, chairman and chief executive at Medsphere, resigned last week.
In the manual of public relations tricks, I guess issuing a troubling press release on a Friday must have been deprecated in favor of not issuing one at all.
Tim posted word of the resignation at 6:25 Friday morning, while Modern Healthcare got around to it [...]

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WellPoint just announced that it has forced the resignation of David Colby, its chief financial officer, after an investigation uncovered undisclosed violations of the firm’s code of conduct.
It is disappointing, I imagine, for their incoming chief executive officer, Angela Braly, to have one of the first announcements under her watch be so embarrassing.
The company wouldn’t [...]

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