COBRA Assistance. If Executive then participates in the Company’s medical and/or dental plans and Executive timely elects to continue and maintain group health plan coverage pursuant to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”), then, subject to Sections 7(e) and 7(f) below, the Company will pay monthly, on the Executive’s behalf, a portion of the cost of such coverage for the Severance Period, which payments will be equal to the amount of the monthly premium for such coverage, less the amount that Executive would have been required to pay if Executive had remained an active Executive of the Company (the “COBRA Assistance”); provided, however, that if and to the extent that the Company may not provide such COBRA Assistance without incurring tax penalties or violating any requirement of the law, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to provide substantially similar assistance in an alternative manner provided that the cost of doing so does not exceed the cost that the Company would have incurred had the COBRA Assistance been provided in the manner described above or cause a violation of Section 409A (as defined in Section 19 below).
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Caladrius Biosciences, Inc.), Employment Agreement (Caladrius Biosciences, Inc.), Employment Agreement (NeoStem, Inc.)
COBRA Assistance. If Executive then participates in the Company’s medical and/or dental plans and Executive timely elects to continue and maintain group health plan coverage pursuant to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”), then, subject to Sections 7(e) and 7(f) below, the Company will pay monthly, on the Executive’s behalf, a portion of the cost of such coverage for the Severance Periodsix (6) month period after the Termination Date, which payments will be equal to the amount of the monthly premium for such coverage, less the amount that Executive would have been required to pay if Executive had remained an active Executive of the Company (the “COBRA Assistance”); provided, however, that if and to the extent that the Company may not provide such COBRA Assistance without incurring tax penalties or violating any requirement of the law, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to provide substantially similar assistance in an alternative manner provided that the cost of doing so does not exceed the cost that the Company would have incurred had the COBRA Assistance been provided in the manner described above or cause a violation of Section 409A (as defined in Section 19 below).
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Samples: Employment Agreement (NeoStem, Inc.)