Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
To the extent required by Item 2.02 of Form 8-K, the information contained or
incorporated by reference in Item 7.01 of this Current Report is incorporated by
reference in this Item 2.02.
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
The Registrant has certain obligations to advance amounts for reasonable
defense costs for initially 10 and now nine former officers and directors of the
Registrant's former subsidiary Emdeon Practice Services, Inc. ("EPS") who were
indicted in connection with the previously disclosed investigation by the United
States Attorney for the District of South Carolina (the "Investigation"). The
Investigation is described under "Legal Proceedings - Investigations by United
States Attorney for the District of South Carolina and the SEC" in Note 14 to
the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Registrant included in its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and, pursuant to
General Instruction B.3 of Form 8-K, the description under that caption is
incorporated by reference in this Item 7.01. As previously disclosed, the
Registrant believes that the Investigation primarily relates to the business of
EPS, its former subsidiary. EPS was sold in September 2006 to Sage Software,
Inc. and has changed its name to Sage Software Healthcare, Inc. ("SSHI"). In
connection with the Registrant's sale of EPS to Sage Software Inc., the
Registrant retained certain obligations relating to the Investigation and agreed
to indemnify Sage Software, Inc. and SSHI with respect to certain expenses in
connection with the Investigation.
Based on information the Registrant has recently received related to the
Investigation, including estimates of expected defense costs provided by counsel
for certain of the indicted individuals, the Registrant is now able to calculate
an estimate of its obligations to advance amounts for the reasonable defense
costs for the nine indicted individuals. The Registrant expects to take a charge
for this obligation in its financial statements for the quarter ended June 30,
2007, which will be included within the Discontinued Operations section of its
Statement of Operations. While the Registrant is still in the process of
finalizing this estimate, it expects that the total amount of the charge will be
approximately $58 million, on a pre-tax basis.
Item 8.01. Other Events.
On July 23, 2007, the Registrant commenced litigation in the Court of
Chancery of the State of Delaware in and for New Castle County against nine
insurance companies in which the Registrant is seeking to compel the defendant
companies (collectively, the "Defendants") to honor their obligations under
certain directors and officers liability insurance policies (the "Policies"). We
refer to this litigation below as the "Coverage Litigation." The Policies were
issued to the Registrant and to Emdeon Practice Services, Inc. ("EPS"), a former
subsidiary of the Registrant, which is a co-plaintiff with the Registrant in the
Coverage Litigation (collectively, the "Plaintiffs"). EPS was sold in
September 2006 to Sage Software, Inc. and has changed its name to Sage Software
Healthcare, Inc. ("SSHI").
The Plaintiffs in the Coverage Litigation are seeking an order requiring the
Defendants to advance and/or reimburse expenses that the Registrant has incurred
and expects to continue to incur for the advancement of the
reasonable defense costs of initially 10 and now nine former officers and
directors of the Registrant's former EPS subsidiary who were indicted in
connection with the previously disclosed investigation by the United States
Attorney for the District of South Carolina (the "Investigation"). The
Investigation is described under "Legal Proceedings - Investigations by United
States Attorney for the District of South Carolina and the SEC" in Note 14 to
the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Registrant included in its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and, pursuant to
General Instruction B.3 of Form 8-K, the description under that caption is
incorporated by reference in this Section 8.01. As previously disclosed, the
Registrant believes that the Investigation primarily relates to the business of
EPS, its former subsidiary. In connection with the Registrant's sale of EPS to
Sage Software Inc., the Registrant retained certain obligations relating to the
Investigations and agreed to indemnify Sage Software, Inc. and SSHI with respect
to certain expenses in connection with the Investigations. The Registrant
retained the right to assert claims and recover proceeds under the Policies on
behalf of SSHI.
The Policies at issue in the Coverage Litigation consist of two separate
groups of insurance policies. Each group of policies consists of several layers
of coverage, with certain insurers having agreed to provide specified amounts of
coverage before the coverage provided by other insurers at higher layers is
available. The first group of policies was issued to EPS in the amount of
$20 million (the "EPS Policies") and the second group of policies was issued to
Synetic, Inc. (the former parent of EPS, which merged into the Registrant) in
the amount of $100 million (the "Synetic Policies"). To date, $9.5 million has
been paid by insurance companies representing the first two of the four total
layers of insurance coverage under the EPS Policies, and $6.4 million has been
paid by the insurance company representing the primary layer of insurance
coverage under the Synetic Policies, in each case subject to reservations of
rights.
The Registrant believes that the Defendants are required to advance and/or
reimburse amounts that the Registrant has incurred and expects to continue to
incur for the advancement of the reasonable defense costs of the indicted
individuals (and the Registrant has in fact been reimbursed, subject to
reservations of rights, by other insurance companies who have issued Policies in
the same groups of Policies as the Defendants). However, there can be no
assurance that the Registrant will prevail in the Coverage Litigation or that
the Defendants will be required to provide funding on an interim basis pending
the resolution of the Coverage Litigation. The Registrant intends to continue to
satisfy its legal obligations to the indicted individuals with respect to
advancement of amounts for their defense costs.