The court, in Bordeaux, used a new law to rule that the girl and her parents should receive compensation estimated at 600,000 francs ($85,000) by the court.
Harold T. Shapiro, who ranked third in the survey, received $705,863 in the year he stepped down as president of Princeton, including deferred compensation estimated at $200,000.
Ms Shoesmith is now expected to take her case to the employment tribunal, where she is pursuing compensation estimated at £1m.
Graef Crystal, an independent expert on executive compensation, estimated that Mr. Nacchio received about $87 million in compensation in 2001, despite a widening of Qwest's losses and a 65percentt plunge in its stock price.
Mr. Duhalde has insisted that any such compensation, estimated at about $30 billion, must be approved by Congress, effectively committing the next government to what will certainly be difficult negotiations with the banks.
But the pair suffered one of the more spectacular showbiz splits of recent times, ending in a legal battle in which Shalit won compensation estimated at £2m. "He has had an amazing year," said our panel.
Wigan chairman Dave Whelan confirmed today that he was close to securing the services of Steve Bruce as the Latics' new manager after agreeing to pay compensation estimated at around £3m to Birmingham City.
From 2000 to 2008, Angelo Mozilo, the chief executive of Countrywide, received total compensation estimated at $521.5 million; in 2010, without admitting or denying any wrongdoing, he paid $67.5 million to settle civil fraud charges brought by the S.E.C.
Compensation estimates were derived by multiplying lost work hours from presenteeism and absenteeism by wage/fringe.
Reductions in friction-corrected presenteeism costs were qualitatively greater than reductions in friction-corrected absenteeism costs compared to compensation estimates.
