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Edwards Lifesciences Corp 8-K Report, Corporate Update (Mar 4, 2009)

Filed March 4, 2009For Securities:EW

Summary

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (EW) filed an 8-K report on March 3, 2009, to address a significant administrative error made by their financial printer, Merrill Corporation. The printer erroneously changed the filing name for EW's SEC EDGAR database entries to 'Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc.' This mistake affected all filings, including the recently filed 2008 10-K annual report, causing confusion regarding the company's identity and its filings. The primary purpose of this 8-K is to rectify this error and ensure all future and existing filings are correctly associated with Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. The company explicitly states it has not changed its name and has no affiliation with Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc. This report itself is intended to correct the filing name in the EDGAR system.

Key Highlights

  • 1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (EW) filed an 8-K to correct a printer error that misidentified the company in SEC filings.
  • 2The financial printer, Merrill Corporation, incorrectly listed EW's filings under 'Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc.'
  • 3This error impacted all of the company's filings in the EDGAR database, including its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.
  • 4Edwards Lifesciences states it has not changed its name and has no affiliation with Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc.
  • 5The filing of this 8-K is intended to correct the company's name in the EDGAR system going forward.
  • 6No new financial or operational information about the company's business performance is disclosed in this filing; it is purely an administrative correction.

Frequently Asked Questions

This 8-K filing is to correct a significant administrative error where the company's filings with the SEC were erroneously listed under the name 'Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc.' due to a mistake by their financial printer.

No, this filing does not contain any new information about the company's business operations, financial performance, or strategic direction. It is solely an administrative correction of the company's name as it appears in SEC filings.

No, Edwards Lifesciences explicitly states that it has not changed its name and has no affiliation with Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc. The appearance of that name in SEC filings was an error by their printer.

The filing of this 8-K is intended to correct the name under which all of Edwards Lifesciences' EDGAR filings appear, including past ones like the 2008 10-K, to the correct company name.