There has to be something that we don't know. To simply explain that they're doing this to avoid litigation assumes that they'd be willing to throw money down a rat hole.

Companies are resigned to the fact that Arthur Andersen is soon to be deceased.

This is not a populist demand for reduced compensation. This is a demand for more accountable compensation that in effect allows investors to relate pay to performance.

I suspect this rush to settle the civil antitrust actions and the securities class action are the product of both an approaching deal with the government involving a plea of guilty to criminal price fixing, and also the approaching shareholders meeting.

People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.

To Anthony's credit, they could have found themselves embroiled in some major litigation a few years back ... Anthony got indemnity agreements drafted,