Replacing Fluegel is Brian Sassi, an executive who used the run the Anthem plan in California for WellPoint, its biggest state, and more recently ran the individual business.
Braly wanted him to work for WellPoint so badly that when she hired him in 2007 she did so despite a lawsuit by his previous employer Aetna over a non-compete. (Wellpoint won one round and it was later settled.) Braly promoted Fluegel to Executive Vice President.