---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-035286"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MLSS"
cik: "0000855683"
company_name: "MILESTONE SCIENTIFIC INC."
filed_at: "2024-11-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T00:41:51.472316+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Milestone Scientific CEO Arjan Haverhals to retire Dec 31, 2024; Chairman Neal Goldman named interim CEO

## Summary
- CEO Arjan Haverhals retires as officer on Dec 31, 2024; remains director and consultant through family company.
- Chairman Neal Goldman appointed Interim CEO effective January 1, 2025; board to engage executive search for permanent CEO.
- Haverhals receives modified 2024 bonus (50% cash, 50% stock vs prior 33%/67%) and $350k consulting fee for 2025.
- Press release highlights recent Medicare payment rate granted for CompuFlo Epidural System under CPT code 0777T.
- Haverhals says retirement not due to any disagreement with board or management.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-035286
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MLSS
- cik: 0000855683
- company_name: MILESTONE SCIENTIFIC INC.
- filed_at: 2024-11-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/855683/000143774924035286/0001437749-24-035286-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/855683/000143774924035286/mlss20241113_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-035286
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-035286.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-035286.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Neal Goldman was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer at MILESTONE SCIENTIFIC INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Mr. Neal Goldman, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, has been appointed the Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective on Mr. Haverhals retirement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/855683/000143774924035286/0001437749-24-035286-index.htm
- Executive change
  Arjan Haverhals departed as Chief Executive Officer at MILESTONE SCIENTIFIC INC..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On November 8, 2024, Mr. Arjan Haverhals, the Chief Executive Officer of Milestone Scientific Inc. (the “Company”), advised the Chairman of the Board that he intends to retire as an officer from the Company upon the expiration of, and not seek the renewal of, his employment agreement, on December 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/855683/000143774924035286/0001437749-24-035286-index.htm

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