PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT ASSOC. v. COSS

No. C5-97-1623.

574 N.W.2d 107 (1998)

PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, INC., et al., Appellants, v. Lawrence M. COSS, Respondent, Richard G. Evans, et al., Respondents, and Green Tree Financial Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied April 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl L. Cambronne and Jeffrey D. Bores, Chestnut & Brooks, P.A., Vernon J. Vander Weide, Head, Seifert & Vander Weide, P.A., Minneapolis, Mark Reinhardt, Reinhardt & Anderson, St. Paul, Herbert E. Milstein and Lisa M. Mezzetti, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., Arthur T. Susman, Charles R. Watkins and Susan Shulman, Susman, Buehler & Watkins, C. Phillip Curley and Sara N. Love, Robinson, Curley & Clayton, Chicago, IL, for Professional Management Associates, Inc. Employees' Profit Sharing Plan, and Greenbaum & Assoc., Inc. Profit Sharing Plan & Trust.

Thomas L. Kimer, Faegre & Benson, LLP, Minneapolis, for respondent Lawrence M. Coss.

J. Patrick McDavitt, Briggs & Morgan, P.A., Minneapolis, for respondents Richard G. Evans, W. Max McGee, Robert S. Nickoloff and Robert D. Potts.

Peter S. Hendrixson, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Minneapolis, for defendant Green Tree Financial Corporation.

Considered and decided by RANDALL, P.J., TOUSSAINT, C.J., and HOLTAN, J.


OPINION

TOUSSAINT, Chief Judge.

Appellants Professional Management Associates, Inc., Employees Profit Sharing Plan, and Greenbaum & Associates, Inc., Profit Sharing Plan and Trust, filed a shareholder derivative action against the board of directors of Green Tree Financial Corporation (Green Tree) for alleged corporate waste involving a compensation agreement with Green Tree's chief executive office and chairman of the board, respondent Lawrence M. Coss...

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