STATE OF DELAWARE
SECRETARY OF STATE
DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS
FILED 09:00 AM 09/21/2000
001475981 - 3290948
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
BEST BENEFITS, INC.
The undersigned, a natural person, for the purpose of organizing a
corporation for conducting the business and promoting the purposes hereinafter
stated, under the provisions and subject to the requirements of the laws of the
State of Delaware (particularly Chapter 1, Title 8 of the Delaware Code and the
acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and known, identified, and
referred to as the "General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware"), hereby
certifies that:
FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the "Corporation")
is Best Benefits, Inc.
SECOND: The address, including street, number, city and county, of the
registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is, 15 East North
Street, Dover, Delaware, 19901, County of Kent, and the name of the registered
agent of the Corporation in the State of Delaware at such address is United
Corporate Services, Inc.
THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall
have authority to issue is twenty thousand (20,000) shares of Common Stock with
a par value of $0.001 per share.
FIFTH: The name and the mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:
Name Mailing Address
Jason A. Marsh c/o Diserio Martin O'Connor
& Castiglioni, LLP
One Atlantic Street, 5th Fl.
Stamford, Connecticut 06901
SIXTH: The Corporation is to have a perpetual existence.
SEVENTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this
Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this
Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable
jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary
way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder
thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this
Corporation under Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the
application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed
for this Corporation under Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a
meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or
class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of creditors, and/or the
stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be,
to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number
representing three fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors,
and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the
case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of
this Corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said
compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by
the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the
creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of
stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this
Corporation.
EIGHTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the
affairs of the Corporation, and in further definition, limitation, and
regulation of the powers of the Corporation and of its directors and of its
stockholders or any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided:
1. The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of
the Corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The number of
directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be
fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the Bylaws. The phrase "whole
Board" and the phrase "total number of directors" shall be deemed to have
the same meaning, to wit, the total number of directors which the
Corporation would have if there were no vacancies. No election of directors
need be by written ballot.
2. After the original or other Bylaws of the Corporation have been
adopted, amended, or repealed, as the case may be, in accordance with the
provisions of Section 109 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, and, after the Corporation has received any payment for any of
its stock, the power to adopt, amend, or repeal the Bylaws of the
Corporation may be exercised by the Board of Directors of the Corporation;
provided, however, that any provision for the classification of directors
of the Corporation for staggered terms pursuant to the provisions of
subsection (d) of Section 141 of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware shall be set forth in an initial Bylaw or in a Bylaw adopted by
the stockholders entitled to vote of the Corporation unless provisions for
such classification shall be set forth in this Certificate of
Incorporation.
3. Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue only one
class of stock, each outstanding share shall entitle the holder thereof to
notice of, and the
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right to vote at, any meeting of stockholders. Whenever the Corporation
shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock, no outstanding
share of any class of stock which is denied voting power under the
provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation shall entitle the holder
thereof to the right to vote at any meeting of stockholders except as the
provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Section 242 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall otherwise require; provided,
that no share of any such class which is otherwise denied voting power
shall entitle the holder thereof to vote upon the increase or decrease in
the number of authorized shares of said class.
NINTH: The personal liability of the directors of the Corporation is hereby
eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by paragraph (7) of subsection (b) of
Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same
may be amended and supplemented.
TENTH: The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section
145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be
amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power
to indemnify under said section from and against any and all of the expenses,
liabilities, or other matters referred to in or covered by said section, and the
indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other
rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any Bylaw, agreement,
vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action
in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such
office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director,
officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs,
executors and administrators of such person.
ELEVENTH: From time to time any of the provisions of this Certificate of
Incorporation may be amended, altered, or repealed, and other provisions
authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be
added or inserted in the manner and at the time prescribed by said laws, and all
rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the Corporation by this
Certificate of Incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of this
Article ELEVENTH.
Signed on September 21, 2000
By:/s/ JASON A. MARSH
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Jason A. Marsh
Incorporator
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