Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent in accordance with the timing and other provisions of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunder. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company or any of its subsidiaries. (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control: (1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus (2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus (3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment. (b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions. (c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.
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Samples: Change in Control Agreement (Aon PLC), Change in Control Agreement (Aon PLC), Change in Control Agreement (Aon PLC)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during On the Date of Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminateExecutive’s employment under this Agreement for any reason whatsoever, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Terminationthe Executive’s Base Salary will cease thereafter to accrue except as specifically provided in Sections 5, 6 or 9 and the Executive (or in the event of Executive’s death, Executive’s designated beneficiaries, Executive’s personal representative, or the executor or other legal representative administrator of Executive’s estate (Executive’s "Beneficiaries")) will be entitled to such rights and benefits under the Employer's compensation and benefit plans, policies and arrangements in which the Executive is then a participant as may be provided for under such plans, policies and arrangements (which shall not be modified adversely to the Executive or Executive’s Beneficiaries after Executive’s Date of Termination):
(a) pay and deliver to the Executive (or, in the case event of Executive’s death, to Executive’s Beneficiaries) not later than thirty days after Executive’s Date of Termination, all amounts of money and all stock or other property owed to Executive by the Employer as of the Date of Termination, including but not limited to Executive’s death accrued Base Salary, any amounts payable in lieu of accrued vacation, amounts payable to Executive under any expense reimbursement plans or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetitionpolicies for expenses incurred through the Date of Termination, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release the amount of claims substantially in any bonus due under any incentive plan to the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf Executive for any bonus period or performance measurement cycle of the Parent Employer that ended prior to the Company shall provide Date of Termination which remained unpaid on the Date of Termination and any compensation previously deferred by the Executive and any accrued interest on earnings on such deferred compensation to the extent not previously paid to the Executive;
(b) cause the trustee of any trusteed plan of the Employer to pay and deliver, as compensation for services rendered and the Employer shall pay and deliver under any similar non-trusteed plan of the Employer, to the CompanyExecutive (or, in the event of Executive’s death, to Executive’s Beneficiaries), at the earliest practicable date after payments become due under such plan, all money, stock and other property which such plans require to be paid or delivered or are otherwise payable or deliverable to Executive after the termination of Executive’s employment;
(c) continue to insure the Executive (or, in consideration the event of Executive’s death, Executive’s Beneficiaries) with respect to Executive’s activities as a director, officer or Executive of the covenants set forth Employer or any of its subsidiaries, for a period of three years after such Date of Termination, under such policies of director and officer liability insurance as Employer shall provide for its senior officers generally; provided, however, that if a Change in Control shall have occurred prior to such Date of Termination or shall thereafter occur, such policies of insurance shall be no less favorable to the Executive than such policies as may have been in effect for the Executive at any time during the one hundred twenty day period immediately preceding the Change in Control Date; and
(d) continue to honor such rights to indemnification as the Executive (or, in the Noncompetition Agreement and Releaseevent of Executive’s death, Executive’s Beneficiaries) may be entitled pursuant to any plan of indemnification or indemnification agreement in effect at the Date of Termination.
(e) The Executive immediately waives any right or entitlement to the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 7(a)-(d) above in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver breaches any term or provision of this Agreement or the Noncompetition Confidentiality Agreement and Release to Restrictive Covenant and in the Parent in accordance with the timing and other provisions event of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, breach the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunder. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall will pay to the Executive (or Employer any damages the Executive’s beneficiary or estateEmployer may be able to recover, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject addition to any applicable payroll or other taxes required relief to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that Employer may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employmententitled.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Kforce Inc), Employment Agreement (Kforce Inc), Employment Agreement (Kforce Inc)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent Company in accordance with the timing and other provisions of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunderthereunder with the Company and its subsidiaries. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.
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Samples: Change in Control Agreement (Aon Corp), Change in Control Agreement (Aon Corp)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent Company in accordance with the timing and other provisions of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations regulations issued thereunderthereunder with the Company and its subsidiaries. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and or benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee the Executive and the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section Sections 5 and 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two three (23) times the sum of (ai) the Executive’s highest annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on during the 12-month period prior to the Termination Date and (bii) the average Executive’s target annual incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company bonus for the previous two yearsfiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two three (23) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two three (23) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions. Within 30 days following the Termination Date, the Company shall pay to the Executive a lump sum cash amount equal to the actuarial equivalent of the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Nonqualified Plans, determined as of the Executive’s Termination Date, notwithstanding anything contained in the Nonqualified Plans to the contrary. Such lump sum cash payment shall be computed in the case of the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan using the same actuarial assumptions then in use for purposes of computing benefits under the plan, provided that the interest rate used in making such computations shall not be greater than the interest rate permitted under section 417(c) of the Code on the date of the Change in Control.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two three (23) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.
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Samples: Change in Control Agreement (Aon Corp), Employment Agreement (Aon Corp)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent Company in accordance with the timing and other provisions of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For certainty and not intending to extend the provisions above to any equity award, in no event shall such forfeiture as described herein shall apply to the payment of any Transition RSUs (as defined in the Executive’s employment agreement with the Company, dated as of September 30, 2010) or any dividend equivalents credited with respect to the Transition RSUs. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunderthereunder with the Company and its subsidiaries. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, that the cost of any medical insurance plan premium reimbursement paid by the Company to the Executive following the end of the continuation coverage period under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, shall be the full cost thereof; provided, further, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.
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Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent Company in accordance with the timing and other provisions of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For certainty and not intending to extend the provisions above to any equity award, in no event shall such forfeiture as described herein shall apply to the payment of any Transition RSUs (as defined in the Executive’s employment agreement with the Company, dated as of September 30, 2010) or any dividend equivalents credited with respect to the Transition RSUs. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunderthereunder with the Company and its subsidiaries. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, that the cost of any medical insurance plan premium reimbursement paid by the Company to the Executive following the end of the continuation coverage period under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, shall be the full cost thereof; provided, further, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.1985
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Aon Corp)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and ReleaseAgreement”) within 45 60 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and ReleaseAgreement, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit Notwithstanding the payments and benefits described in foregoing provisions of this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent in accordance with the timing and other provisions 3, if as a result of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a Executive’s termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date Termination Date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunder. Any amount paid pursuant is entitled to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event conferred or equity awards granted as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee the Executive and the Company or any of its subsidiariessubsidiaries (“Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits”), the Executive shall have no right to any payments or benefits pursuant to this Section 3 unless (i) the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes the Noncompetition Agreement and a release in the form of Exhibit B hereto (the “Release of Severance Payments and Benefits”) within 60 days following the Termination Date releasing all rights to the Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits, other than rights to Alternative Equity Vesting (as defined in Section 4 hereof), and has not revoked the Release of Severance Payments and Benefits and (ii) the payments and benefits to be received by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3 are reduced by the amount of the Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits, if any, previously received by the Executive.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the The Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day within 30 days following the later to occur date of execution of the Termination Date or Noncompetition Agreement and, if applicable, the Change in ControlRelease of Severance Payments and Benefits:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two three (23) times the sum of (ai) the Executive’s highest annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on during the 12-month period prior to the Termination Date and (bii) the average Executive’s target annual incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company bonus for the previous two yearsfiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two three (23) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two three (23) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions. Within 30 days following the Termination Date, the Company shall pay to the Executive a lump sum cash amount equal to the actuarial equivalent of the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Nonqualified Plans, determined as of the Executive’s Termination Date, notwithstanding anything contained in the Nonqualified Plans to the contrary. Such lump sum cash payment shall be computed in the case of the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan using the same actuarial assumptions then in use for purposes of computing benefits under plan, provided that the interest rate used in making such computations shall not be greater than the interest rate permitted under section 417(c) of the Code on the date of the Change in Control.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two three (23) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Aon Corp)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during FOR ANY ------------------------------------------------------------ REASON. On the Date of Termination Period of Executive's employment under this ------ Agreement for any reason whatsoever, Executive's Base Salary hereunder will cease thereafter to accrue except as specifically provided in Sections 5 or 8 and Executive (or in the employment event of his death, his designated beneficiaries, his personal representative, or the executor or administrator of his estate (his "Beneficiaries")) will be entitled to such rights and benefits under the Employer's compensation and benefit plans, policies and arrangements in which Executive is then a participant as may be provided for under such plans, policies and arrangements (which shall not be modified adversely to Executive or his Beneficiaries after his Date of Termination). In addition, the Employer shall:
(a) pay and deliver to Executive (or, in the event of his death, to his Beneficiaries) not later than ten (10) days after his Date of Termination or such later date as Executive or such Beneficiaries may request in writing, all amounts of money and all stock or other property owed to him by the Employer as of the Date of Termination, including but not limited to his accrued Base Salary, any amounts payable in lieu of accrued vacation, amounts payable to him under any expense reimbursement plans or policies for expenses incurred through the Date of Termination, the amount of the bonus due under the Short-Term Plan or Long-Term Plan to Executive shall terminate, other than for any Bonus Period or Performance Measurement Cycle of the Employer that ended prior to the Date of Termination which remained unpaid on the Date of Termination and any compensation previously deferred by reason Executive and any accrued interest on earnings on such deferred compensation to the extent not previously paid to Executive;
(b) cause the trustee of a Nonqualifying Terminationany trusteed plan of the Employer to pay and deliver, and the Employer shall pay and deliver under any similar non- trusteed plan of the Employer, to Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetitionor, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that of his death, to his Beneficiaries), at the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent in accordance with the timing earliest practicable date after payments become due, all money, stock and other provisions property which such plans require to be paid or delivered or are otherwise payable or deliverable to him after the termination of his employment;
(c) continue to insure Executive (or, in the event of his death, his Beneficiaries) with respect to his activities as a director, officer or employee of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunder. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company Employer or any of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except , for a period of years after such Date of Termination, under such policies of director and officer liability insurance as otherwise provided in Section 6Employer shall provide for its senior officers generally; provided, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3however, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the that if a Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject Control shall have occurred -------- ------- prior to any applicable payroll such Date of Termination or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum shall thereafter occur, such policies of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, insurance shall be determined by crediting the no less favorable to Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent than such policies as such coverage shall may have been in effect for Executive at any time during the one hundred twenty (120) day period immediately prior preceding the Change in Control Date; and
(d) continue to the Executive’s Termination Datehonor such rights to indemnification as Executive (or, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; providedevent of his death, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(hhis Beneficiaries) of the Code shall may be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive entitled pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and any plan of indemnification or indemnification agreement in no event later than December 31 effect at the Date of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employmentTermination.
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Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s 's executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s 's death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “"Noncompetition Agreement and Release”Agreement") within 45 60 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and ReleaseAgreement, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit Notwithstanding the payments and benefits described in foregoing provisions of this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent in accordance with the timing and other provisions 3, if as a result of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a Executive's termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date Termination Date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunder. Any amount paid pursuant is entitled to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event conferred or equity awards granted as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee the Executive and the Company or any of its subsidiariessubsidiaries ("Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits"), the Executive shall have no right to any payments or benefits pursuant to this Section 3 unless (i) the Executive (or the Executive's executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive's death or disability following such termination) executes the Noncompetition Agreement and a release in the form of Exhibit B hereto (the "Release of Severance Payments and Benefits") within 60 days following the Termination Date releasing all rights to the Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits, other than rights to Alternative Equity Vesting (as defined in Section 4 hereof), and has not revoked the Release of Severance Payments and Benefits and (ii) the payments and benefits to be received by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3 are reduced by the amount of the Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits, if any, previously received by the Executive.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the The Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s 's beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day within 30 days following the later to occur date of execution of the Termination Date or Noncompetition Agreement and, if applicable, the Change in ControlRelease of Severance Payments and Benefits:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s 's full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s 's annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two three (23) times the sum of (a) Executive’s 's highest annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on during the 12-month period prior to the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two yearsDate; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s 's termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s 's accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s 's termination of employment (the “"Nonqualified Plans”"). The Executive’s 's accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s 's termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two three (23) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two three (23) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions. Within 30 days following the Termination Date, the Company shall pay to the Executive a lump sum cash amount equal to the actuarial equivalent of the Executive's accrued benefits under the Nonqualified Plans, determined as of the Executive's Termination Date, notwithstanding anything contained in the Nonqualified Plans to the contrary. Such lump sum cash payment shall be computed in the case of the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan using the same actuarial assumptions then in use for purposes of computing benefits under plan, provided that the interest rate used in making such computations shall not be greater than the interest rate permitted under section 417(c) of the Code on the date of the Change in Control.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two three (23) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s 's medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s 's Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s 's obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.
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Samples: Severance Agreement (Aon Corp)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during On the Date of Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminateExecutive’s employment under this Agreement for any reason whatsoever, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Terminationthe Executive’s Base Salary will cease thereafter to accrue except as specifically provided in Sections 5, 6 or 9 and the Executive (or in the event of Executive’s death, Executive’s designated beneficiaries, Executive’s personal representative, or the executor or other legal representative administrator of Executive’s estate (Executive’s “Beneficiaries”)) will be entitled to such rights and benefits under the Employer’s compensation and benefit plans, policies and arrangements in which the Executive is then a participant as may be provided for under such plans, policies and arrangements (which shall not be modified adversely to the Executive or Executive’s Beneficiaries after Executive’s Date of Termination):
(a) pay and deliver to the Executive (or, in the case event of Executive’s death, to Executive’s Beneficiaries) not later than thirty days after Executive’s Date of Termination, all amounts of money and all stock or other property owed to Executive by the Employer as of the Date of Termination, including but not limited to Executive’s death accrued Base Salary, any amounts payable in lieu of accrued vacation, amounts payable to Executive under any expense reimbursement plans or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetitionpolicies for expenses incurred through the Date of Termination, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release the amount of claims substantially in any bonus due under any incentive plan to the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf Executive for any bonus period or performance measurement cycle of the Parent Employer that ended prior to the Company shall provide Date of Termination which remained unpaid on the Date of Termination and any compensation previously deferred by the Executive and any accrued interest on earnings on such deferred compensation to the extent not previously paid to the Executive;
(b) cause the trustee of any trusteed plan of the Employer to pay and deliver, as compensation for services rendered and the Employer shall pay and deliver under any similar non-trusteed plan of the Employer, to the CompanyExecutive (or, in the event of Executive’s death, to Executive’s Beneficiaries), at the earliest practicable date after payments become due under such plan, all money, stock and other property which such plans require to be paid or delivered or are otherwise payable or deliverable to Executive after the termination of Executive’s employment;
(c) continue to insure the Executive (or, in consideration the event of Executive’s death, Executive’s Beneficiaries) with respect to Executive’s activities as a director, officer or Executive of the covenants set forth Employer or any of its subsidiaries, for a period of three years after such Date of Termination, under such policies of director and officer liability insurance as Employer shall provide for its senior officers generally; provided, however, that if a Change in Control shall have occurred prior to such Date of Termination or shall thereafter occur, such policies of insurance shall be no less favorable to the Executive than such policies as may have been in effect for the Executive at any time during the one hundred twenty day period immediately preceding the Change in Control Date; and
(d) continue to honor such rights to indemnification as the Executive (or, in the Noncompetition Agreement and Releaseevent of Executive’s death, Executive’s Beneficiaries) may be entitled pursuant to any plan of indemnification or indemnification agreement in effect at the Date of Termination.
(e) The Executive immediately waives any right or entitlement to the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 7(a)-(d) above in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver breaches any term or provision of this Agreement or the Noncompetition Confidentiality Agreement and Release to Restrictive Covenant and in the Parent in accordance with the timing and other provisions event of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, breach the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunder. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall will pay to the Executive (or Employer any damages the Executive’s beneficiary or estateEmployer may be able to recover, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject addition to any applicable payroll or other taxes required relief to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that Employer may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employmententitled.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Kforce Inc)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during On the Date of Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminateExecutive’s employment under this Agreement for any reason whatsoever, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Terminationthe Executive’s Base Salary will cease thereafter to accrue except as specifically provided in Sections 5 or 6, and the Executive (or in the event of Executive’s death, Executive’s designated beneficiaries, Executive’s personal representative, or the executor or other legal representative administrator of Executive’s estate (Executive’s “Beneficiaries”)) will be entitled to such rights and benefits under the Employer’s compensation and benefit plans, policies and arrangements in which the Executive is then a participant as may be provided for under such plans, policies and arrangements (which shall not be modified adversely to the Executive or Executive’s Beneficiaries after Executive’s Date of Termination). In addition, the Employer shall:
(a) pay and deliver to the Executive (or, in the case event of Executive’s death, to Executive’s Beneficiaries) not later than thirty days after Executive’s Date of Termination, all amounts of money and all stock or other property owed to Executive by the Employer as of the Date of Termination, including but not limited to Executive’s death accrued Base Salary, any amounts payable in lieu of accrued vacation, amounts payable to Executive under any expense reimbursement plans or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetitionpolicies for expenses incurred through the Date of Termination, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release the amount of claims substantially in any bonus due under any incentive plan to the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf Executive for any bonus period or performance measurement cycle of the Parent Employer that ended prior to the Company shall provide Date of Termination which remained unpaid on the Date of Termination and any compensation previously deferred by the Executive and any accrued interest on earnings on such deferred compensation to the extent not previously paid to the Executive;
(b) cause the trustee of any trusteed plan of the Employer to pay and deliver, as compensation for services rendered and the Employer shall pay and deliver under any similar non-trusteed plan of the Employer, to the CompanyExecutive (or, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that of Executive’s death, to Executive’s Beneficiaries), at the earliest practicable date after payments become due under such plan, all money, stock and other property which such plans require to be paid or delivered or are otherwise payable or deliverable to Executive after the termination of Executive’s employment;
(c) continue to insure the Executive fails (or, in the event of Executive’s death, Executive’s Beneficiaries) with respect to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent in accordance with the timing and other provisions Executive’s activities as a director, officer or Executive of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunder. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company Employer or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant affiliates, for a period of three years after such Date of Termination, under such policies of director and officer liability insurance as Employer (and its affiliates) shall provide for its senior officers generally; provided, however, that if a Change in Control shall have occurred prior to this Agreementsuch Date of Termination or shall thereafter occur, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company or any policies of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company insurance shall pay be no less favorable to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, than such policies as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect for the Executive at any time during the one hundred twenty day period immediately prior preceding the Change in Control Date; and
(d) continue to honor such rights to indemnification as the Executive (or, in the event of Executive’s Termination Datedeath, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall Beneficiaries) may be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive entitled pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and any plan of indemnification or indemnification agreement in no event later than December 31 effect at the Date of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employmentTermination.
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Samples: Employment Agreement (Kforce Inc)
Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent Company in accordance with the timing and other provisions of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunderthereunder with the Company and its subsidiaries. Any amount paid pursuant to this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu of any other severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee and the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day following the later to occur of the Termination Date or the Change in Control:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is as applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits andretirement plan contributions, in which for purposes of this paragraph will be calculated using the case Executive’s compensation for the last full calendar year ending on or prior to the date of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years Executive’s termination of Retirement Plan Contributionsemployment.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, that the cost of any medical insurance plan premium reimbursement paid by the Company to the Executive following the end of the continuation coverage period under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, shall be the full cost thereof; provided, further, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.
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Payments and Benefits Upon Termination of Employment. If during the Termination Period the employment of the Executive shall terminate, other than by reason of a Nonqualifying Termination, and the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes a noncompetition, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreement and release of claims substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the “Noncompetition Agreement and Release”) within 45 60 days following the Termination Date, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall provide to the Executive, as compensation for services rendered to the Company, and in consideration of the covenants set forth in the Noncompetition Agreement and Release, the payments and benefits described in this Section 3. The Executive shall forfeit the payments and benefits described in this Section 3 in the event that the Executive fails to execute and deliver the Noncompetition Agreement and Release to the Parent in accordance with the timing and other provisions of the preceding sentence or revokes such Noncompetition Agreement and Release prior to the date the release of claims contained therein becomes effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be considered to have a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries on the date the Executive has a “separation from service” as described under Section 409A of the Code and the guidance and Treasury Regulations issued thereunderthereunder with the Company and its subsidiaries. Any amount paid pursuant to Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3 shall be paid in lieu 3, if as a result of any other the Executive’s termination of employment on the Termination Date the Executive is entitled to severance payments and benefits, which benefits may, without limitation, include pay in lieu of notice, salary continuation through a contractual notice period or enhanced supplemental pension benefits conferred, in any event conferred or equity awards granted as a result of termination of employment, from the Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are not payable pursuant to this Agreement, but are payable pursuant to an employment agreement or other compensation arrangement entered into between such Employee the Executive and the Company or any of its subsidiariessubsidiaries (“Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits”), the Executive shall have no right to any payments or benefits pursuant to this Section 3 unless (i) the Executive (or the Executive’s executor or other legal representative in the case of the Executive’s death or disability following such termination) executes the Noncompetition Agreement and Release and a waiver in the form of Exhibit B hereto (the “Waiver of Severance Payments and Benefits”) within 60 days following the Termination Date waiving all rights to the Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits, other than rights to Alternative Equity Vesting (as defined in Section 4 hereof), and has not revoked the Noncompetition Agreement and Release and (ii) the payments and benefits to be received by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3 are reduced by the amount of the Alternative Severance Payments and Benefits, if any, previously received by the Executive.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6, and conditioned upon the Executive’s execution of the Noncompetition Agreement and Release without revocation within the time period described in the preceding provisions of this Section 3, on behalf of the Parent the Company shall pay to the Executive (or the Executive’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be) on the 60th day within 30 days following the later to occur date of execution of the Termination Date or Noncompetition Agreement and Release and, if applicable, the Change in ControlWaiver of Severance Payments and Benefits:
(1) a cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) equal to the sum of (i) the Executive’s full annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies through the Termination Date, to the extent not theretofore paid, (ii) the average of the Executive’s annual cash incentive for each of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs and the denominator of which is 365 or 366, as applicable, and (iii) any accrued vacation pay, in each case to the extent not theretofore paid; plus
(2) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to two (2) times the sum of (a) Executive’s annual base salary from the Company and its affiliated companies in effect on the Termination Date and (b) the average incentive compensation paid to the Executive by the Company for over the previous two years; plus
(3) a lump sum cash amount (subject to any applicable payroll or other taxes required to be withheld pursuant to Section 7 and any deductions authorized by the Executive) in an amount equal to the amount forfeited by the Executive under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Executive’s termination of employment.
(b) The Executive shall become fully (100%) vested in the Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan, the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan and the Aon Corporation Supplemental Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or successor plans in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment (the “Nonqualified Plans”). The Executive’s accrued benefits under the Aon Corporation Excess Benefit Plan or the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, whichever plan is applicable to the Executive on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment, shall be determined by crediting the Executive with two (2) additional years of age and service credits and, in the case of the Aon Corporation Supplemental Savings Plan, two (2) additional years of Retirement Plan Contributions.
(c) For the period commencing on the Termination Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date which is two (2two(2) years following the Termination Date and (ii) the date on which the Executive becomes eligible to participate in and receive medical, dental and life insurance benefits under a plan or arrangement sponsored by another employer having benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3(c), the Company shall continue the Executive’s medical, dental and life insurance coverage, under the Company-sponsored plans or otherwise, upon the same terms and otherwise to the same extent as such coverage shall have been in effect immediately prior to the Executive’s Termination Date, and the Company and the Executive shall share the costs of the continuation of such medical, dental and life insurance coverage in the same proportion as such costs were shared immediately prior to the Termination Date; provided, the Company’s share of the cost of the continuation of coverage under any self-insured medical reimbursement plan that is subject to Section 105(h) of the Code shall be included in the Executive’s taxable income from the Company. Such continuation of medical and dental coverage shall be in satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). Payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Executive pursuant to this Section 3(c) shall be made promptly and in no event later than December 31 of the year following the year in which such expenses were incurred, and the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits provided, in any year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other year, except for any limit on the amount of expenses that may be reimbursed under an arrangement described in Section 105(b) of the Code. Additionally, such right to payment or reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. If the Executive is a “specified employee” under Section 409A of the Code, the full cost of the continuation or provision of employee benefits described under this Section 3(c) (other than any cost of medical or dental benefit plans or programs or the cost of any other plan or program that is exempt from Section 409A of the Code) shall be paid by the Executive until the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment, and such cost shall be reimbursed on behalf of the Parent by the Company or the applicable subsidiary to, or on behalf of, the Executive in a lump sum cash payment on the earlier to occur of the Executive’s death or the date that is six months and one day following the Executive’s termination of employment.
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Samples: Severance Agreement (Aon Corp)
