Allstate 2008 Annual Report Download - page 95

2.27 Performance Period means the time period during which Performance Unit/Performance Stock
Performance Goals must be met.
2.28 Performance Stock means an Award described in Article 9 herein.
2.29 Performance Unit means an Award described in Article 9 herein.
2.30 Period of Restriction means the period during which the transfer of Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock
Units is limited in some way, as provided in Article 8 herein.
2.31 Person means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company,
trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation, institution, public benefit corporation, entity or
government instrumentality, division, agency, body or department.
2.32 Plan means The Allstate Corporation 2009 Equity Incentive Plan.
2.33 Qualified Restricted Stock means an Award of Restricted Stock designated as Qualified Restricted Stock
by the Committee at the time of grant and intended to qualify as Performance-Based Compensation.
2.34 Qualified Restricted Stock Unit means an Award of Restricted Stock Units designated as Qualified
Restricted Stock Units by the Committee at the time of grant and intended to qualify as Performance-Based
Compensation.
2.35 Reload Option means an additional Option related to Options awarded prior to 2004 as described in
Article 6 herein.
2.36 Restricted Stock means an Award described in Article 8 herein.
2.37 Restricted Stock Unit means an Award described in Article 8 herein.
2.38 Retirement means a Participant’s termination from employment with the Company or a Subsidiary at the
Participant’s Early, Normal or Health Retirement Date, as applicable.
(a) Early Retirement Date—shall mean the date prior to the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date on which a
Participant terminates employment, if such termination date occurs on or after the Participant attains age
fifty-five (55) with twenty (20) years of service and such retirement is in accordance with the voluntary
early retirement policy of the Company or the Subsidiary with which the Participant is employed on the
date of termination of employment.
(b) Normal Retirement Date—shall have the meaning given to it by the Company or the Subsidiary with
which the Participant is employed on the date of termination of employment, provided that such
termination is voluntary and occurs on or after the Participant attains age sixty (60) with at least one
(1) year of service at termination of employment.
(c) Health Retirement Date—shall mean the date on which the Participant terminates employment for health
reasons (as determined under the human resource policy of the Company or the Subsidiary with which
the Participant is employed on the date of termination of employment), provided that such termination
date occurs on or after the Participant attains age fifty (50) but before the Participant attains age sixty
(60), with at least ten (10) years of continuous service at termination of employment.
2.39 Section 409A shall have the meaning set forth in Section 19.5 herein.
2.40 Section 16 Officer means any Participant who is an ‘‘officer’’ of the Company or a Subsidiary as that term
is defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act.
2.41 Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
2.42 Stock means the common stock, $.01 par value, of the Company.
2.43 Stock Appreciation Right or SAR means a right, granted alone or in connection with a related Option,
designated as an SAR, to receive a payment on the day the right is exercised, pursuant to the terms of Article 7
herein. Each SAR shall be denominated in terms of one share of Stock.
2.44 Subsidiary means any corporation, business trust, limited liability company or partnership with respect to
which the Company owns, directly or indirectly, Voting Securities representing more than 50% of the aggregate
Voting Power of the then-outstanding Voting Securities.
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