513 material Form 8-K filings that 427 companies we cover made with the SEC in November 2024, each read and summarized by AI: what happened, the key figures, whether it reads positive or negative for shareholders, and how big a deal it is (impact 1-5). All of them were written later, when past filings were added: a selection, not every 8-K of the month (see the note below).
Acadia Pharmaceuticals said Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Commercial Brendan Teehan was involuntarily terminated without Cause, effective immediately. Mr. Teehan will stay on as a non-executive employee through December 31, 2024 to help transfer his duties to a successor, and CEO Catherine Owen Adams will assume his responsibilities until one is appointed.
Brendan Teehan's executive role ended effective immediately, per an agreement dated November 18, 2024
Teehan remains a non-executive employee until December 31, 2024 to assist with the transition
CEO Catherine Owen Adams will assume his responsibilities until a successor is appointed
The filing does not name a successor or state the reason for the termination
Assurant named Kevin Warren, former chief marketing and customer experience officer at UPS, to its Board of Directors and its Compensation and Talent Committee, effective January 15, 2025, subject to customary regulatory approval. Two directors are also leaving the board: Lawrence V. Jackson will retire at the 2025 annual meeting, and Paget L. Alves will resign effective January 15, 2025 to become CEO of Sorenson.
Kevin Warren joins the board and Compensation and Talent Committee effective January 15, 2025, subject to customary regulatory approval.
Warren served as chief marketing and customer experience officer at UPS from 2018 to 2024 and spent 34 years at Xerox Corporation.
Lawrence V. Jackson retires effective at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.
Paget L. Alves resigns from the board effective January 15, 2025 to become CEO of Sorenson.
Horace Mann Educators disclosed that Kimberly Johnson, its Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, plans to retire effective January 3, 2025. Chief Financial Officer Ryan Greenier will take on the Principal Accounting Officer role when she retires, so the change is administrative and does not alter the company's financial results.
Kimberly Johnson, SVP, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, plans to retire effective January 3, 2025
Johnson joined the company in 2002 as Assistant Controller and became Vice President and Controller in April 2017
Ryan Greenier, Executive Vice President and CFO, will become Principal Accounting Officer upon her retirement
Briefs are written by AI from the filing text and can contain mistakes — open the filing before acting on anything. Impact (1-5) and tone are the AI's reading of the filing for shareholders, not a price forecast. Not investment advice.
Briefs marked “Written later” were written in November 2026 for filings that were by then more than three weeks old, so months before mid-October 2026 hold a selection: every material 8-K of the past year for the 100 largest companies we cover and the last 15 important 8-Ks of every other one. Briefs the number check holds back are not shown or counted. Also: the last 45 days, briefs by company, A–Z and the live SEC filings wire.