Blue cross ND fires CEO over trip.Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. of North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). fired president/CEO Mike Unhjem after being criticized for a Caribbean retreat attended by more than 30 sales employees and guests, reports AP (March 10, 2009). Chairman Dennis Elbert said he and other board members fielded angry telephone calls from policyholders about a Cayman Islands Cayman Islands (kā`mən), British dependency (2005 est. pop. 44,300), 100 sq mi (259 sq km), comprising three islands in the West Indies. retreat attended by Unhjem, marketing VP Chad Niles, and 33 employees and their guests. The trip cost more than US$250,000, or about US$6,500 per couple. Elbert said the insurer has since scrubbed such trips, which came at a time when it is seeking increases in three rate categories. The insurer said it lost US$28 million last year. The nonprofit company, the state's dominant insurer, says it provides health care coverage to more than 375,000 North Dakotans North Dakota Abbr. ND or N.D. or N.Dak. A state of the north-central United States bordering on Canada. It was admitted as the 39th state in 1889. and 75,000 nonresidents. |
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