WELLPOINT HEALTH NETWORKS INC. (a Delaware corporation) $450,000,000 63/8% Notes due 2006 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • June 14th, 2001 • Wellpoint Health Networks Inc /De/ • Hospital & medical service plans • New York
WellPoint Health Networks Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell to each of the several Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (collectively, the "Underwriters," which term shall also include any underwriter substituted as hereinafter provided in Section 10 hereof), for whom Salomon Smith Barney Inc. ("SSB") and UBS Warburg LLC ("UBSW") are acting as representatives (in such capacity, the "Representatives"), $450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 63/8% Notes due 2006 (the "Securities") to be issued pursuant to the provisions of an Indenture dated as of June 8, 2001 (the "Indenture") between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the "Trustee").
