Cause

Cause. Means dishonesty, fraud, misrepresentation, embezzlement or deliberate injury or attempted injury, in each case related to the Company or any subsidiary or any material breach of any confidentiality agreement entered into with the Company or any subsidiary.

Cause. For the purposes of this Agreement, 'Cause' for Officer's termination will exist upon the occurrence of one or more of the following events: (a) Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by Officer with respect to the performance of Officer's duties with Umpqua; (b) Conduct by Officer that materially discredits Umpqua or any of its subsidiaries or is materially detrimental to the reputation of Umpqua or any of its subsidiaries, including but not limited to conviction or a plea of nolo contendere of... Officer of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude; (c) Officer's willful misconduct or gross negligence in performance of Officer's duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to Officer's refusal to comply in any material respect with the legal directives of the Board or the Supervisor, if such misconduct or negligence has not been remedied or is not being remedied to the Board's reasonable satisfaction within thirty (30) days after written notice, including a detailed description of the misconduct or negligence, has been delivered by the Board to Officer; (d) An order or directive from a state or federal banking regulatory agency requesting or requiring removal of Officer or a finding by any such agency that Officer's performance threatens the safety or soundness of Umpqua or any of its subsidiaries; or (e) A material breach of Officer's fiduciary duties to Umpqua if such breach has not been remedied or is not being remedied to the Board's reasonable satisfaction within thirty (30) days after written notice, including a detailed description of the breach, has been delivered by the Board to Officer. View More

Cause. The occurrence of any of the following: (a) the Executive's material misconduct or neglect in the performance of his duties; (b) the Executive's commission of any felony; offense punishable by imprisonment in a state or federal penitentiary; any offense, civil or criminal, involving material dishonesty, fraud, moral turpitude or immoral conduct; or any crime of sufficient import to potentially discredit or adversely affect the Company's ability to conduct its business in the normal course; (c)... the Executive's use of illegal drugs or abusive use of prescription drugs; (d) the Executive's material breach of the Company's written Code of Conduct, as in effect from time to time; (e) the Executive's commission of any act that results in severe harm to the Company excluding any act taken by the Executive in good faith that he reasonably believed was in the best interests of the Company; or (f) the Executive's material breach of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, a material breach of the Employee Confidentiality, Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement attached hereto as Attachment A. View More

Cause. Means the definition of "Cause" stated in the Participant's employment agreement with the Company.

Cause. As determined in the sole discretion of the Board, a Holder's (i) commission of a felony; (ii) dishonesty or misrepresentation involving the Company; (iii) serious misconduct in the performance or non-performance of Holder's responsibilities to the Company (e.g. gross negligence, willful misconduct, gross insubordination or unethical conduct); (iv) for Holder's who are Employee's, violation of any material condition of employment; or (v) for Holder's who are Employee's, voluntary termination of... employment by the Holder without providing the Company with a minimum of two weeks notice, unless the giving of such notice is otherwise waived by the Company View More

Cause. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Cause" shall mean incompetent performance or substantial or continuing inattention to or neglect of the duties and responsibilities assigned to the Employee as determined by the Employee's current supervisor, with the concurrence of the Human Resources department; fraud, misappropriation or embezzlement involving TTM or any of its affiliates; a material breach of TTM's policies, this Agreement or any other agreement between the Employee and TTM (or any... of its affiliates); or commission of any felony. View More

Cause. That the Executive has (i) committed an act of personal dishonesty, embezzlement or fraud; (ii) has misused alcohol or drugs; (iii) failed to pay any obligation owed to the Company or any affiliate; (iv) breached a fiduciary duty or deliberately disregarded any rule of the Company or any affiliate; (v) has committed an act of willful misconduct, or the intentional failure to perform stated duties; (vi) has willfully violated any law, rule or regulation (other than misdemeanors, traffic... violations or similar offenses) or any final cease-and-desist order; (vii) has disclosed without authorization any Confidential Information of the Company or any affiliate, or has engaged in any conduct constituting unfair competition, or has induced any customer of the Company or any affiliate to breach a contract with the Company or any affiliate View More

Cause. A termination by the Company of your employment with the Company because of: (A) an intentional act or omission that constitutes a material breach by you of any of your obligations under this Agreement; (B) your conviction of, or plea of nolo contendere to, (1) any felony or (2) another crime involving dishonesty or which could reflect negatively upon you or otherwise impair or impede its operations; (C) you engaging in any misconduct, negligence, act of dishonesty, violence or threat of... violence (including any violation of federal securities laws) that is materially injurious to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (D) your material breach of a written policy of the Company or the rules of any governmental or regulatory body applicable to the Company that is or could be materially and financially injurious to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; or (E) any other misconduct by you which is materially injurious to the financial condition, operations or business reputation of the Company or any of its subsidiaries. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 1(c) to the contrary, no event or condition described in Sections 1(c)(A), (C), (D) or (E) shall constitute Cause unless (x) within ninety (90) days from the Board first acquiring actual knowledge of the existence of the Cause condition, the Board provides you written notice of its intention to terminate your employment for Cause and the grounds for such termination; (y) such grounds for termination (if susceptible to correction) are not corrected by you within thirty (30) days of your receipt of such notice (or, in the event that such grounds cannot be corrected within such thirty-day (30) period, you have not taken all reasonable steps within such thirty-day (30) period to correct such grounds as promptly as practicable thereafter); and (z) the Board terminates your employment with the Company immediately following expiration of such thirty-day (30) period. For purposes of this Section 1(c), any attempt by you to correct a stated Cause shall not be deemed an admission by you that the Board's assertion of Cause is valid. View More

Cause. Shall mean either of the following: (i) the repeated failure by the Executive, after written notice from the Board, substantially to perform his material duties and responsibilities as an officer or employee or director of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than any such failure resulting from incapacity due to reasonably documented physical or mental illness), or (ii) any willful misconduct by the Executive that has the effect of materially injuring the business of the Company or... any of its subsidiaries, including, without limitation, the disclosure of material secret or confidential information of the Company or any of its subsidiaries View More

Cause. For termination by the Company of the Executive's employment shall mean (i) Executive's failure or refusal to carry out the lawful directions of the Company, which are reasonably consistent with the responsibilities of the Executive's position; (ii) a material act of dishonesty or disloyalty by Executive related to the business of the Company; (iii) Executive's conviction of a felony, a lesser crime against the Company, or any crime involving dishonest conduct; (iv) Executive's habitual or... repeated misuse or habitual or repeated performance of the Executive's duties under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances; or (v) any incident materially compromising the Executive's reputation or ability to represent the Company with the public or any act or omission by the Executive that substantially impairs the Company's business, good will or reputation. View More