The nation's leading trash hauler, Waste Management Inc., said yesterday that it would revoke $23.1 million in severance pay and stock options for four former executives to settle shareholder suits contending the company was mismanaged.
Murdoch told MPs in July this year that he was unaware that other News of the World journalists were hacking into mobile phones when he authorised his executives to settle Taylor's case in 2008 by paying him damages of £425,000 plus costs, taking the total payout to more than £700,000.
ONCE, when an uptight advertising executive decided to settle down, he married a witch.
Last week it was imperative that Stephen Hester be hustled out of Royal Bank of Scotland because the Treasury wanted privatisation to happen by the end of 2014 and to give a new chief executive time to settle in.
When one executive offered to settle the dispute with a coin toss, Waters asked why he should gamble on something he owned.
Two top Schwab executives refused to settle S.E.C. civil charges and say they will fight the commission in court.
And in 2007, the Knicks paid $11.5 million to a former executive, Anucha Browne Sanders, to settle a sexual harassment case against the team and its former coach, Isiah Thomas.
REUTERS OlympusuSaidid to Reach Settlement With Former Chief | Olympus agreed to pay Michael C. Woodford, its former chief executive, roughly $15.7 million to settle a lawsuit over his dismissal, an unidentified person familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.
A former hedge fund manager and a pharmaceutical executive have agreed to settle federal insider trading charges related to the 2007 takeover of the biotechnology company MedImmune, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday.
DealBook » Coty Waits to Go Public | The perfume maker Coty is delaying its I.P.O. until at least the first quarter of next year, in order to "give its new chief executive more time to settle in," The Wall Street Journal reports, citing an unidentified person close to the deal.
