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 Payments. Upon completion of appropriate forms and subject to applicable terms and conditions under the COBRA, the Company shall continue to pay its share of the costs for Employee’s coverage under the Company’s group health insurance plan, until the earlier to occur of twelve (12) months following Executive’s termination date or the date Executive begins employment with another employer; provided that such Company-paid premiums may be recorded as additional income pursuant to Section 6041 of the Code and not entitled to any tax qualified treatment to the extent necessary to comply with or avoid the discriminatory treatment prohibited by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 or Section 105(h) of the Code. Executive shall bear full responsibility for applying for COBRA continuation coverage and Company shall have no obligation to provide Executive such coverage if Executive fails to elect COBRA benefits in a timely fashion.

Retirement Benefit. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, Stecko’s Retirement Benefit under [Section 2.1] shall be equal to the product of Stecko’s final average compensation, multiplied by his years of service, multiplied by (.0167). For purposes of this Appendix A: # “final average compensation” shall mean Stecko’s average base salary plus average bonus in the three of his final five years of service during which his base salary and bonus, determined independently, were highest; and # “years of service” shall equal five (5) plus the elapsed time from April 12, 1999 until Stecko’s termination of service. Stecko’s Retirement Benefit shall not be reduced by his PCA Pension Plan Benefit, Pactiv Pension Plan Benefit or Pactiv SERP Benefit, and shall be nonforfeitable without regard to his reason for terminating Service. If distribution of Stecko’s Retirement Benefit commences prior to age 62, a 4% per year reduction will apply.

Death Benefit. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, upon Stecko’s death, the actuarial equivalent of his remaining Retirement Benefit, if any shall be payable in a lump sum to # his Surviving Spouse, # if there is no Surviving Spouse, then to his living children in equal portions, or # if none of Stecko’s children survives him, then to his estate.

Health Benefit. Provided that you properly and timely elect to continue your health insurance benefits under COBRA after the last day of this month in accordance with the notice provided by Anthem, [[Organization B:Organization]] shall pay on your behalf your applicable COBRA premiums for up to one month or until you become eligible under another employer’s health insurance, whichever is earlier; provided, however, that if [[Organization B:Organization]] determines that reimbursed or payment of COBRA premiums would violate the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, [[Organization B:Organization]] will, in lieu thereof, provide you a taxable monthly payment, payable on the last day of a given month, in an amount equal to the monthly COBRA premium that you would be required to pay to continue your group health coverage in effect on the Separation Date, for one month or until you become eligible under another employer’s health insurance, whichever is earlier (the “Health Benefit”).

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.

For any participant eligible to receive benefits under this Plan, the value of such benefit is an amount that is determined by notionally crediting on a monthly basis the amount of employer contributions that cannot be made to the Savings Plan for that person as a result of application to that person of Code sections 415 and 401(a)(17). This amount is enhanced in each instance by 120 percent of the long-term Applicable Federal Rate, compounded monthly, as of the last month of each calendar quarter as published by the Internal Revenue Service.

Small Benefit. Subject to Section 5.3, in the event that the vested Account balance of a Participant who has died or experienced a Termination of Employment under the Plan is less than the applicable dollar amount under Code section 402(g)(1)(B) for that Plan Year as of the date on which the Plan Administrator makes such determinations, the Plan Administrator (on behalf of the Company) reserves the right to have the Participant’s entire Account paid in the form of a single lump sum payment, provided the Plan Administrator’s exercise of discretion (on behalf of the Company) complies with the requirements of Treas. Reg. [Sec. 1.409A-3(j)(4)(v)])].

Death Benefit. In the event of the Employee’s death, the Company shall pay the Employee’s unpaid vested Performance Units (in the amount determined under Section 4(a) of the Agreement if the Employee’s death occurred prior to the end of the Incentive Cycle) to the Employee’s estate. Such payment shall be made at the time prescribed in [Section 5(a)] above, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter in a single lump sum distribution of shares of Common Stock (and cash for fractional shares of Common Stock), unless the Performance Units were deferred under the ​ Deferred Compensation and 401(k) Excess Plan, in which case such deferred Performance Units shall be paid under the terms of that plan.

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.