Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 402(b) of the New York Business Corporation Law provides that, subject to conditions and qualifications provided by statute, a certificate of incorporation may set forth a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors to the Company or its shareholders for damages for any breach of duty in such capacity.
The Companys Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the Certificate of Incorporation), provides that no director of the Company shall be personally liable to the Company or any of its shareholders for damages for any breach of duty in such capacity except for liability of any director if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the director establishes that his acts or omissions were in bad faith or involved intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law or that he personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he was not legally entitled or that his acts violated Section 719 of the New York Business Corporation Law. If the New York Business Corporation Law hereafter is amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Company, in addition to the limitation on personal liability provided therein, shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by the amended New York Business Corporation Law. Any repeal or modification of such Article of the Certificate of Incorporation shall be prospective only, and shall not adversely affect any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the Company existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
The Companys Amended By-laws govern the indemnification of any director or officer of the Company or any employee of the Company who is or was involved in any manner (including, without limitation, as a party or a witness) or is threatened to be made so involved in any threatened, pending or completed investigation, claim, action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or otherwise by reason of the fact that, in the case of directors and officers of the Company, is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was at the request of the Company serving as an officer or director or in any other capacity with another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise or entity (including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan), and in the case of employees of the Company, is or was serving (a) as a director or officer of a corporation or in a capacity equivalent to that of a director or officer for any partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan) in which the Company had at the time of such service, directly or indirectly, a 50% or greater equity interest or (b) at the written request of the Company, as a director or officer of a corporation or in a capacity equivalent to that of a director or officer for any partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan) in which the Company had at the time of such service, directly or indirectly, a significant business interest but a less than 50% equity interest (or, in the case of an employee benefit plan, no equity interest at all), against all expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such proceeding.
The Company has obtained directors and officers liability insurance which insures the Companys officers and directors against certain liabilities.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
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