First Filed Tyco Opt-out Case Partially Settles

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According to press reports (here), the seven New Jersey public pension funds that filed the first Tyco opt-out case have settled their claims against Tyco International Ltd., Tyco chief legal officer Mark Belnick and directors Richard Bodman, John Fort III, James Pasman Jr. and Wendy Lane for $73 million.

The settlement does not include claims alleged against former CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and former CFO Mark Swartz, former director Frank Walsh Jr. and Tyco's outside accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and its Bermuda affiliate, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The New Jersey public funds were represented by Shalov Stone Bonner & Rocco LLP and Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP.

A copy of the 348 page, 1343 paragraph second amended complaint filed by the NJ public funds can be found here.

And of course, an updated scorecard of the Tyco opt-out cases can be found here.

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