Over the last 12 months, executive salaries at private companies have jumped 15percentto20percentcent, said Dee DiPietro, the chief executive of Advanced-HR, a Saratoga, Calif., company that sells compensation data.
Comparison sites PayScale.com and Salary.com sell compensation reports for as little as $20 a pop.
Alternatively, Yukos's Eastern Oil subsidiary could be sold as compensation for the government tax claim.
The lawsuit by Starr, A.I.G.'s largest shareholder, says the accord may be improper because A.I.G. agreed to make restitution to at least three states where it never sold workers' compensation coverage.
Victor Homola (NYT) GREECE: GERMAN PROTEST -- Germany lodged a protest with Greece as bailiffs, guarded by the police, moved to assess the value of German property in Athens to be seized and sold in compensation for the massacre of 218 Greek villagers by Nazi forces in 1944.
As a result, some carriers simply refuse to sell workers' compensation coverage at all, said Damian Testa, a senior executive at Kay Insurance Associates in Manhattan.
Mr. Steinberg, 60, will remain chairman and will focus on the company's e-commerce strategy, including Cybercomp, which uses the Internet to help sell workers' compensation insurance, said Lowell C. Freiberg, Reliance's chief financial officer.
"If they believe you are doing everything you possibly can, they might accept some performance slippage," said Susan Rivera, the president of an A.I.G. division that sells workers' compensation and other business insurance.
In late 1997 Reliance launched its CyberComp unit, becoming the first insurer to sell workers' compensation coverage over the Internet.
A government official said Iran would use diplomacy and cultural channels to regain ancient clay tablets that a United States court ruled last week could be sold to pay compensation to victims of a 1997 Jerusalem bombing.
