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Cook executive, daughter die in plane crash

William S. Gibbons Jr., Cook's vice president of of global engineering, and his 15-year-old daughter, Abbey, were killed when the plane crashed into Buffalo Mountain in eastern Tennessee.

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Cook deluged by product lawsuits

Patients from around the country have filed 100 lawsuits against Bloomington-based Cook, alleging that some of its blood-clot filters have broken apart, moved or poked through the blood vessel where they are implanted.

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Cook Group President Hawkins plans retirement

Kem Hawkins, who has been president of Cook Group Inc. since 2001, will retire on July 1. He will be replaced by Pete  Yonkman, who since 2013 has been president of Cook Medical, the Cook subsidiary that makes medical devices.

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Q&A

Dave Reed is president of the Healthcare Business Solutions group inside Bloomington-based Cook Medical Inc. Since 2007, his team of 18 full-time people—aided by about 60 others throughout Cook’s organization—has worked with hospital systems, distributors of medical products and group purchasing organizations to improve the efficiency of the business side of health care and to make sure new products contribute to that efficiency, as well as solving unmet medical needs.

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