Medical Mutual of Ohio (formerly Blue Cross of Ohio) doesn't get a lot of pixels here: they're not a large carrier, and haven't done much to either tick us off or make us shout "hurrah!" But they are part of our industry, and I just learned that their CEO, Kent Clapp, was killed in a plane crash this past Wednesday (the 3rd).
Kent was only 62 years old when he died. According to the carrier's website, he was a philanthropist who enjoyed giving back to the community: "In 2000, he was awarded the March of Dimes Franklin Delano Roosevelt Humanitarian Award, and in 2002 he was honored at the Northeast Ohio MS Society�s Dinner of Champions."
According to news reports, he was flying in a twin engine plane which crashed as he and his fiance were returning from a vacation. It was a last-minute charter flight (they had apparently missed their regular, commercial flight).
As FoIB Rick Byrnes notes, perhaps the saddest thing was this observation by company spokesman Jared Chaney:
"There is nothing that was that important...Looking back on it, he could have waited for another plane."
Our deepest sympathies go out to his family and co-workers.
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