Item 5.02.
Departure of Directors or Certain
Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory
Arrangements of Certain Officers
On
September 19, 2007, DJO Incorporated (the Company) entered into Change in
Control Severance Agreements (Change in Control Agreements) with Leslie H.
Cross, Chief Executive Officer and President, Vickie L. Capps, Executive Vice
President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Luke T. Faulstick, Chief
Operating Officer, Lou T. Ruggiero, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, and
Donald M. Roberts, Senior Vice President and General Counsel (the Named
Executive Officers). The Change in
Control Agreements are intended to provide for continuity of management in the
context of a prospective change in control of the Company. Following a change in control, as will occur
in connection with the proposed merger with a subsidiary of ReAble Therapeutics
Finance, LLC (the Merger) and related transactions, the Change in Control
Agreements will remain in effect for a period of two years.
Pursuant
to the Change in Control Agreements, if a Named Executive Officers employment
is terminated by the Company without cause (as such term is defined in the
Change in Control Agreements) or if such executive officer terminates
employment for good reason (as such term is defined in the Change in Control
Agreements), in each case within three months prior to or two years after the
Merger, the executive is entitled, in addition to accrued salary and bonus, to
the following benefits:
·
A
lump sum payment equal to the sum of the executives highest annual rate of
base salary during the 12 month period preceding the termination date
multiplied by 1.5 (or 2 in the case of our chief executive officer), plus:
·
the executives aggregate annual target bonus
for the year of termination; and
·
a pro rata portion of the executives
aggregate annual target bonus for the portion of the year of termination during
which the executive served as an employee, less any amounts paid from our annual
incentive plan for the year of termination.
·
A
lump sum cash payment of an amount equal to (i) 18 (or 24 in the case of our
chief executive officer), multiplied by (ii) the amount by which the monthly
premium the executive would be required to pay for continued coverage pursuant
to COBRA, for such executive and his or her eligible dependents covered under
our health plans as of the termination date, exceeds the contributions required
by the executive immediately prior to the termination date.
·
A
lump sum cash payment of an amount equal to (i) 18 (or 24 in the case of our
chief executive officer), multiplied by (ii) the amount by which the total
monthly premium paid for accidental death and dismemberment and life insurance
coverage as of the termination date exceeds the contributions required by the
executive immediately prior to the termination date.
·
The
full vesting and ability to exercise all outstanding awards of stock options
granted to the executive prior to the closing of the Merger.
As
a condition to receiving the severance benefits under the Change in Control
Agreements, an executive must execute a waiver and release of claims in favor
of the Company. The following table shows the amount of potential cash payments
and the value of other severance benefits each of the Named Executive Officers
would be entitled to if his or her employment were terminated without cause
or he or she resigned for good reason as of September 30, 2007 (assuming the
Merger had closed on or before such date):
2
Name
|
|
Base
Salary Payment
($)
|
|
Bonus
Payment
($)
|
|
Health
Benefits ($)
|
|
Life and Accidental
Death &
Dismemberment
Benefits
($)
|
|
Total ($)
|
|
Leslie H. Cross
|
|
1,060,000
|
|
645,121
|
|
15,417
|
|
1,908
|
|
1,722,446
|
|
Vickie L. Capps
|
|
472,500
|
|
306,737
|
|
11,255
|
|
851
|
|
791,343
|
|
Luke T.
Faulstick
|
|
472,500
|
|
306,737
|
|
11,255
|
|
851
|
|
791,343
|
|
Louis T.
Ruggiero
|
|
472,500
|
|
306,737
|
|
8,025
|
|
851
|
|
788,113
|
|
Donald M. Roberts
|
|
412,500
|
|
267,786
|
|
9,137
|
|
743
|
|
690,166
|
|
The
foregoing description of the Change in Control Agreements with the above
officers is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms of such
agreements, the forms of which are filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2 to this
current report on Form 8-K.