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West Virginia Business Litigation
More on the AIG Bonuses
The furor over the AIG retention payments (a/k/a bonuses) has died down somewhat, perhaps because most of the executives involved have agreed to refund the bonuses, and perhaps because President…
Pennsylvania Family Law
STOCK OPTION DEVELOPMENTS
Over the past twenty years the landscape of executive compensation has changed markedly. One new feature is the appearance of executive stock options as a form of compensation. Stock options…
ContractsProf Blog
For Those Who Did Not See Today’s NY Times: More on AIG
The Times today posted this letter of resignation from an AIG executive. He makes the case in defense of at least some of those executives. I have yet to see…
Securities Law Prof Blog
NY AG Says It Has List of AIG Bonus Recipients
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT RELATED TO AIG:"I have received the list of AIG FP employees who received retention payouts. Mr. Liddy testified in Congress yesterday that he intended…
Securities Law Prof Blog
AIG’s Liddy Testifies on Bonuses
AIG CEO Edward Libby is still testifying before the House Financial Services Committee and explaining why AIG had to pay those bonuses. Perhaps the only noteworthy new information is that…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Cunningham on A.I.G. Bonuses
In today's New York Times, Lawrence Cunningham (GW) has an op-ed on the recent furor over A.I.G. bonuses. In his piece, Cunningham discusses the extent to which A.I.G. is legally…
ContractsProf Blog
More on the AIG Bonus Contracts
A forum on the NYT site "Room for Debate" includes short reactions from Tom Baker, Charles Fried, Frank Snyder, Glenn Greenwald, James P. Tuthill and Deborah W. Post: check it…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Cuomo on AIG Bonuses
The latest from New York AG Cuomo on AIG's bonuses:AIG now claims that it had no choice but to pay these sums because of the unalterable terms of the plan.…
ContractsProf Blog
ContractsProf Represent!
On the AIG bonus contracts, from the SF Chronicle:Someattorneys are asking why the government, which owns 80 percent of AIG,didn't pressure the company to withhold payments while it investigatedways to…
Securities Law Prof Blog
President Obama Speaks Out Against AIG Bonuses
President Obama has called upon Treasury Secretary Geithner to take all steps to prevent AIG from paying those bonsues to employees at the company's Financial Products unit. The New York…