Leonard R. Watterson, VP Corporate Accounting at EMERITUS CORP\WA\ (ESC), bought 5,000 shares at $7.02 ($35K) on 2008-11-18, disclosed to the SEC on 2008-11-20.
Open-market purchase of $35k ESC by VP Corporate Accounting. Below the thresholds we flag for high-conviction alerts (no C-suite role, rare reversal, cluster, or A-grade history).
Clearly above the average filing.