Separation The Employment Period will continue until (i) Executive's death, Disability or resignation from employment with the Company, Employer and their respective Subsidiaries or (ii) the Company, Employer and their respective Subsidiaries decide to terminate Executive's employment with or without Cause. If (A) Executive's employment is terminated without Cause pursuant to clause (ii) above or (B) Executive resigns from employment with the Company, Employer or any of their respective Subsidiaries for Good Reason, then during the period commencing on the date of termination of the Employment Period and ending on the first anniversary of the date of termination (the "SEVERANCE PERIOD"), Employer shall pay to Executive, in equal installments on the Employer's regular salary payment dates, an aggregate amount equal to (I) his Annual Base Salary, plus (II) an amount equal to the annual bonus, if any, paid or payable to Executive by Employer for the last fiscal year ended prior to the date of termination. In addition, if Executive is entitled on the date of termination to coverage under the medical and prescription portions of the Welfare Plans, such coverage shall continue for Executive and Executive's covered dependents for a period ending on the first anniversary of the date of termination at the active employee cost payable by Executive with respect to those costs paid by Executive prior to the date of termination; PROVIDED, that this coverage will count towards the depletion of any continued health care coverage rights that Executive and Executive's dependents may have pursuant to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended ("COBRA"); PROVIDED further, that Executive's or Executive's covered dependents' rights to continued health care coverage pursuant to this SECTION 8(c) shall terminate at the time Executive or Executive's covered dependents become covered, as described in COBRA, under another group health plan, and shall also terminate as of the date Employer ceases to provide coverage to its senior executives generally under any such Welfare Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (I) Executive shall not be entitled to receive any payments or benefits pursuant to this SECTION 8(c) unless Executive has executed and delivered to Employer a general release in form and substance satisfactory to Employer and (II) Executive shall be entitled to receive such payments and benefits only so long as Executive has not breached the provisions of SECTIONS 9 or 10 hereof. The release described in the foregoing sentence shall not require Executive to release any claims for any vested employee benefits, workers compensation benefits covered by insurance or self-insurance, claims to indemnification to which Executive may be entitled under the Company's or its Subsidiaries' certificate(s) of incorporation, by-laws or under any of the Company's or its Subsidiaries' directors or officers insurance policy(ies) or applicable law, or equity claims to contribution from the Company or its Subsidiaries or any other Person to which Executive is entitled as a matter of law in respect of any claim made against Executive for an alleged act or omission in Executive's official capacity and within the scope of Executive's duties as an officer, director or employee of the Company or its Subsidiaries. Not later than eighteen (18) months following the termination of Executive's employment, the Company and its Subsidiaries for which the Executive has acted in the capacity of a senior manager, shall sign and deliver to Executive a release of claims that the Company or its Subsidiaries has against Executive; PROVIDED THAT, such release shall not release any claims that the Company or its Subsidiaries commenced prior to the date of the release(s), any claims relating to matters actively concealed by Executive, any claims to contribution from Executive to which the Company or its Subsidiaries are entitled as a matter of law or any claims arising out of mistaken indemnification by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Except as otherwise provided in this SECTION 8(c) or in the Employer's employee benefit plans or as otherwise required by applicable law, Executive shall not be entitled to any other salary, compensation or benefits after termination of Executive's employment with Employer.
Transition Plan 1. A transition plan is a detailed description of the process of transferring enrollees from non-participating providers to the Health Plan's behavioral health care provider network to ensure optimal continuity of care. The transition plan shall include, but not be limited to, a timeline for transferring enrollees, description of provider clinical record transfers, scheduling of appointments, and proposed prescription drug protocols and claims approval for existing providers during the transition period. The Health Plan shall document its efforts relating to the transition plan in the enrollee’s clinical records.
Severance Plans Trident shall cause Fountain to establish the Fountain Severance Plans, each effective as of the Fountain Distribution Date and each in substantially the same form(s) as the Trident Severance Plans as provided by Trident in the online data room in Folders 8.2.2.3, 8.2.2.4 and 8.2.2.5 as of the date of this Agreement (provided that Trident will, prior to establishing such Fountain Severance Plans, amend Section 3.02(b)(x) of the Trident Severance Plan in Folder 8.2.2.5 to be identical to Section 3.02(b)(x) of the Trident Severance Plan in Folder 8.2.2.3 and such amended plan shall serve as the form for the corresponding Fountain Severance Plan) and, correspondingly, Fountain Employees and Former Fountain Employees who are currently eligible to receive or are receiving severance payments shall cease participating in the Trident Severance Plans on the Fountain Distribution Date. After the Fountain Distribution Date: (i) Fountain shall be solely responsible for (x) the payment of all Liabilities under the Trident Severance Plans (as amended pursuant to the proviso above) or Fountain Severance Plans relating to Fountain Employees and Former Fountain Employees, (y) the management and administration of the Fountain Severance Plans and (z) the payment of all employer-related costs in establishing and maintaining the Fountain Severance Plans, and (ii) Trident shall retain sole responsibility for (w) all Liabilities under the Trident Severance Plans or Fountain Severance Plans relating to Trident Employees and Former Trident Employees, (x) all Liabilities for severance or termination pay or benefits under individual agreements entered into with any Trident Employee or Former Trident Employee prior to the Fountain Distribution Date, (y) the management and administration of the Trident Severance Plans and (z) the payment of all employer-related costs in maintaining the Trident Severance Plans. In no event shall an employee or former employee receive a duplication of severance benefits. Except as provided below, Fountain shall be solely responsible for the adjudication of any claims filed by a Fountain Employee or Former Fountain Employee before, on or after the Fountain Distribution Date under a Trident Severance Plan. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, Trident shall be solely responsible for the adjudication of any claim filed by a Fountain Employee or Former Fountain Employee under a Trident Severance Plan before the Fountain Distribution Date that (A) has not been finally adjudicated by Trident on the day immediately preceding the Fountain Distribution Date; and (B) under the applicable claims procedure, Trident’s plan administrator or other authorized person or committee will have a less than sixty (60) day period after the Fountain Distribution Date to respond to such claim. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, if Trident’s response to such claim does not finally adjudicate the claim, Trident shall immediately upon sending its response to the claimant transfer administration of such claim to Fountain for final adjudication.
The Separation At or prior to the Effective Time, to the extent not already completed and subject to the terms of the Ancillary Agreements:
Retirement Plans In connection with the individual retirement accounts, simplified employee pension plans, rollover individual retirement plans, educational IRAs and XXXX individual retirement accounts (“XXX Plans”), 403(b) Plans and money purchase and profit sharing plans (collectively, the “Retirement Plans”) within the meaning of Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) sponsored by a Fund for which contributions of the Fund’s shareholders (the “Participants”) are invested solely in Shares of the Fund, JHSS shall provide the following administrative services:
Separation Agreement The Parties agree that, in the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Separation Agreement with respect to the subject matter hereof, the terms of this Agreement shall govern.
Separation Agreement and General Release The Company’s obligation to make the Severance Payment or to pay the Salary Continuation is conditioned on Executive’s or his legal representative’s executing a separation agreement and general release of claims related to or arising from Executive’s employment with the Company or the termination of employment, against the Company and its affiliates (and their respective officers and directors) in a form reasonably determined by the Company, which shall be provided by the Company to Executive within five (5) days following the Date of Termination; provided, that, if Executive should fail to execute (or revokes) such release within 60 days following the Date of Termination, the Company shall not have any obligation to provide the Severance Payment or the Salary Continuation. If Executive executes the release within such 60 day period and does not revoke the release within seven (7) days following the execution of the release, the Severance Payment will be made in accordance with Section 4(a)(ii) or the Salary Continuation shall commence at such time, as applicable.
Welfare Plans (a) For all purposes (including purposes of vesting, eligibility to participate and level of benefits) under the employee welfare benefit plans of Buyer and its affiliates providing benefits to any Acquired Employees after the Closing (the “New Welfare Plans” ), each Acquired Employee shall subject to applicable Law and applicable tax qualification requirements be credited with his or her years of service with Knight Ridder or its affiliates, including the Acquired Companies and their Subsidiaries, before the Closing, to the same extent as such Acquired Employee was entitled, before the Closing, to credit for such service under any similar employee benefit plan in which such Acquired Employee participated or was eligible to participate immediately prior to the Closing, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to the extent that its application would result in a duplication of benefits. In addition, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (A) each Acquired Employee shall be immediately eligible to participate, without any waiting time, in any and all New Welfare Plans if such Acquired Employee participated immediately before the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in a comparable type of welfare benefit plan of a Seller Entity (such plans, collectively, the “Old Plans” ), and (B) for purposes of each New Welfare Plan providing medical, dental, pharmaceutical and/or vision benefits to any Acquired Employee, Buyer, or, as applicable, an Acquired Company, shall cause all pre-existing condition exclusions and actively-at-work requirements of such New Welfare Plan to be waived for such Acquired Employee and his or her covered dependents, unless such conditions would not have been waived under the comparable plans of Knight Ridder or its affiliates, including the Acquired Companies and their Subsidiaries, in which such Acquired Employee participated immediately prior to the Closing and Buyer shall cause any eligible expenses incurred by such employee and his or her covered dependents during the portion of the plan year of the Old Plan ending on the date such employee’s participation in the corresponding New Welfare Plan begins to be taken into account under such New Welfare Plan for purposes of satisfying all deductible, coinsurance and maximum out-of-pocket requirements applicable to such employee and his or her covered dependents for the applicable plan year as if such amounts had been paid in accordance with such New Welfare Plan.
Effective Times Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, at the Closing, (a) the Company shall cause a certificate of merger in connection with the First Merger (the “First Certificate of Merger”) to be executed, acknowledged and filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL and (b) immediately following the filing of the First Certificate of Merger, the First Surviving Corporation shall cause a certificate of merger in connection with the Second Merger (the “Second Certificate of Merger”) to be executed, acknowledged and filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL. The First Merger shall become effective at such time as the First Certificate of Merger has been duly filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware or at such later time as may be agreed by the Company and First Merger Sub in writing and specified in the First Certificate of Merger in accordance with the DGCL (the effective time of the First Merger being herein referred to as the “First Effective Time”) and the Second Merger shall become effective at such time as the Second Certificate of Merger has been duly filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware or at such later time as may be agreed by the First Surviving Corporation and Surviving Merger Sub in writing and specified in the Second Certificate of Merger in accordance with the DGCL, but in any event immediately following the First Effective Time (the effective time of the Second Merger being herein referred to as the “Second Effective Time”).
Retirement and Welfare Plans Executive shall participate in employee retirement and welfare benefit plans made available to the Company’s senior level executives as a group or to its employees generally, as such retirement and welfare plans may be in effect from time to time and subject to the eligibility requirements of the plans. Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent the Company from amending or terminating any retirement, welfare or other employee benefit plans or programs from time to time as the Company deems appropriate.
