The answer so far has been to help affected farmers with payouts from crop insurance plans.
Much of MCI's senior management left quickly, flush with payouts from stock options.
These packages, together with payouts of unused time off, have given some people as many as six weeks of salary.
Trinity Mirror has been privately settling hacking claims, with payouts in the low tens of thousands of pounds.
Annuities have suffered their worst year on record, with payouts to newly retiring pensioners falling by 15% so far during 2016, according to data provider Moneyfacts.
Adjusting for inflation and rising population, we arrived at the following findings: Large claims (with payouts of at least $25,000 in 1988 dollars) were roughly constant in frequency.
Although small beer compared with payouts received by investment bankers – last month Barclays said its bonus pool was more than £2bn – the payout is equal to 15% of salary.
The highest rate, paid by the most profitable ones, including the telecommunications, energy and tobacco industries, is 15% of post-tax profits—still very low compared with payouts by state firms in other countries.
Using a complex mechanism, it would allow the owners of scanned, out-of-print libraries, such as Google or actual non-profits like the Hathitrust library, to make a limited set of them available with payouts to authors.
The system paid $1,500 for knocking a player out of a game and $1,000 for when an opponent was carted off the field, with payouts doubling or tripling during the playoffs.
