Benefit Plans. Except as would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company Group, considered as one enterprise, all Benefit Plans have been operated, maintained, funded and administered in compliance in all material respects with their respective terms and all applicable laws, including ERISA and the Code, and no Benefit Plan has any unfunded or underfunded liabilities. There are no pending, or to the knowledge of the Company Group, threatened material claims by or on behalf of any Benefit Plan, by any employee or beneficiary covered under any such Benefit Plan, or otherwise involving any such Benefit Plan (other than routine claims for benefits). No member of the Company Group nor any of their respective ERISA Affiliates sponsors, maintains, contributes to or has any liability, contingent or otherwise, with respect to, or has ever sponsored, maintained, contributed to or had any liability, contingent or otherwise, with respect to, any defined benefit pension plan subject to Title IV or [Section 302] of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, a “multiemployer plan” (as defined in [Section 4001(a)(3)] of ERISA) or a “multiple employer plan” (within the meaning of Section 412(c) of the Code). No member of the Company Group has any liability, contingent or otherwise, to provide any post-retirement life, health or welfare benefits, other than liability for continuation coverage described in Part 6 of Title I of ERISA or similar applicable state laws. No Benefit Plan is a “non-qualified deferred compensation plan” subject to Section 409A of the Code. Each Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is the subject of a favorable determination or opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service as to such qualification and, to the knowledge of the Company Group, nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would reasonably be expected to adversely affect such qualification. Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby (whether alone or in conjunction with a subsequent event) will entitle any employee or other service provider of the Company Group to any compensatory payment or benefit, increase the amount of any compensatory payment or benefit, accelerate the time of payment or vesting or result in the funding of any compensatory payment or benefit, or result in any loan forgiveness. No member of the Company Group has any obligation to pay any tax gross-up or similar payments.

Benefit Plans. The Company is not a party to any benefit plan under which the Company currently has an obligation to provide benefits to any current or former employee, officer or director of the Company.

Benefit Plans. During the Employment Period, the Executive and/or the Executive's family, as the case may be, shall be eligible for participation in and shall receive all benefits under welfare benefit plans, practices, policies, and programs provided by the Company and its Affiliated Companies (including, without limitation, medical, executive medical, annual executive physical, prescription, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, executive long-term disability, salary continuance, employee life, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, and travel accident insurance plans and programs) to the extent applicable generally to other peer executives of the Company and its Affiliated Companies, but in no event shall such plans, practices, policies, and programs provide the Executive with benefits which are less favorable, in the aggregate, than the most favorable of such plans, practices, policies, and programs in effect for the Executive at any time during the 90-day period immediately preceding the Effective Date or, if more favorable to the Executive, those provided generally at any time after the Effective Date to other peer executives of the Company and its Affiliated Companies.

Benefit Plans. During the Employment Term, the Executive shall be eligible to participate in all retirement and employment benefit plans and programs of the Company that are generally available to senior executives of the Company. Executive may also receive long term incentive grants pursuant to the Company’s long-term incentive program(s). Such participation shall be pursuant to the terms and conditions of such plans and programs, as the same shall be amended from time to time. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Executive shall be entitled to receive relocation benefits consistent with the Company’s policy in effect from time to time with adjustments as approved by a representative of the Compensation Committee.

Subject only to such limitations or restrictions as may relate to the Executive personally, during the Initial Term or any Renewal Term, the Company will at the Executive’s request include the Executive in all of the Company’s employee benefits programs and plans (including, but not limited to, group medical plans) provided by the Company to its executive employees, for so long as such programs and plans are continued by the Company and are available to its executive employees generally, and the Company will pay the premium cost of such participation to the same extent as the Company pays for its other executives.

Benefit Plans. During the term of this Agreement, Executive shall be entitled to participate, at a level commensurate with his position, in all benefit plans Employer presently has or hereafter adopts for its officers or employees, including (without limitation) directors and officers liability insurance, pension, profit sharing, stock option or any group life or health insurance, hospitalization or other similar plans, any eligibility or waiting periods to be waived to the extent feasible.

Benefit Plans. Except as otherwise set forth in this [Section 9.8], the Seller and its Affiliates shall retain all Liabilities in respect of any employee benefit plan of any kind or nature which any of them has sponsored, sponsors, has contributed to or contributes to, whether incurred on, prior to, or after the Closing Date. No assets or liabilities of any employee benefit plan shall be transferred to the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates or any employee benefit plan maintained by any of them except as specified in [Section 9.8]. All claims incurred by Transferred Employees or their covered dependents on or prior to the Closing Date under any employee benefit plan sponsored by any Seller or Seller Affiliate or to which any Seller or Seller Affiliate contributes shall be covered pursuant to the terms and conditions of such benefit plans. For purposes of this Agreement, # a claim for health benefits will be deemed to have been incurred on the date on which the related medical service or material was rendered to or received by the individual claiming such benefit, # a claim for sickness, accident or disability benefits based on an injury or illness occurring on or prior to the Closing Date will be deemed to have been incurred prior to the Closing Date and # in the case of any claim for benefits other than health, sickness, accident or disability benefits (e.g., life insurance benefits), a claim will be deemed to have been incurred upon the occurrence of the event giving rise to such claim.

Benefit Plans. NOVA is not a party to any collective bargaining agreement or any bonus, pension, profit sharing, deferred compensation, incentive compensation, stock ownership, stock purchase, phantom stock, retirement, vacation, severance, disability, death benefit, hospitalization, medical or other plan, arrangement or understanding (whether or not legally binding) under which NOVA currently has an obligation to provide benefits to any current or former employee, officer or director of NOVA (collectively, "Benefit Plans").

Employee Benefit Plans. Except for the sponsorship of Assumed Employee Benefit Plans, Purchaser shall not assume any Employee Benefit Plan or any Liability thereunder or related thereto and Purchaser shall provide only those benefits to Continuing Employees as of or after the Closing as Purchaser shall determine. In addition, Purchaser shall assume all responsibility for, and honor, paying any unpaid base wages and base salaries, accrued commissions, vacation, sick leave, personal time of the Continuing Employees but only to the extent not paid as of the Closing Date and set forth in the Financial Statements (the “Unpaid Compensation”). Except for obligations relating solely to the Assumed Employee Benefit Plans specifically assumed under [Section 2.3(c)] and the Unpaid Compensation, and as set forth in Sections 9.3 and 9.4, Sellers shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Purchaser from and against all obligations, claims or Liabilities at any time arising under or in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan. Except as set forth in Sections 9.3 and 9.4, nothing contained in this Agreement, express or implied: # shall be construed to establish, amend or modify any benefit or compensation plan, program, agreement or arrangement; # shall alter or limit the ability of Purchaser or any of its Affiliates to amend, modify or terminate any benefit or compensation plan, program, agreement or arrangement at any time assumed, established, sponsored or maintained by any of them; or # is intended to confer

Seller Benefit Plans. As of the Closing Date, in no event shall any Continuing Employee be entitled to accrue any benefits under any Seller Benefit Plan with respect to services rendered or compensation paid on or after the Closing Date. From and after the Closing Date, Seller and its Affiliates shall retain sponsorship of all the Seller Benefit Plans and shall retain and hold Buyer harmless and indemnify Buyer with respect to all commitments, Liabilities and obligations thereunder, whether arising before, on or after the Closing, and neither Buyer nor any of its Affiliates shall have any responsibility for any such Seller Benefit Plans or commitments, Liabilities or obligations. Effective as of the Closing Date, Seller shall cause the account balances of the Continuing Employees in each Seller Benefit Plan that is a 401(k) plan and the benefits of the Continuing Employees in each Seller Benefit Plan that is a defined benefit pension plan or a nonqualified retirement plan to be fully vested.