-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, OSTRsQ0eixlM+VkRJoZHaKwyV3TkyhBoaQqC+NT7of2awzdcrQ3ephpJGU9NoKjW 8qnK1Urlfos7p5WEpAsOlQ== 0000950136-07-007897.txt : 20071116 0000950136-07-007897.hdr.sgml : 20071116 20071116092228 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950136-07-007897 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 5 FILED AS OF DATE: 20071116 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20071116 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20071116 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AMERICAN CLAIMS EVALUATION INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000774517 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-SOCIAL SERVICES [8300] IRS NUMBER: 112601199 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NY FISCAL YEAR END: 0331 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-147442 FILM NUMBER: 071251562 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 375 N BROADWAY STREET 2: ONE JERICHO PLAZA CITY: JERICHO STATE: NY ZIP: 11753 BUSINESS PHONE: 5169388000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE JERICHO PLAZA CITY: JERICHO STATE: NY ZIP: 11753 S-8 1 file1.htm FORM S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 16, 2007

Registration No. 333-                    

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

American Claims Evaluation, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


New York 11-2601199
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

One Jericho Plaza
Jericho, New York 11753
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

2007 Stock Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)

Gary Gelman
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Claims Evaluation, Inc.
One Jericho Plaza
Jericho, New York 11753
(Name and address of agent for service)

(516) 938-8000
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Joel I. Frank, Esq.
Siller Wilk LLP
675 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10017

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE


 
Title of securities
to be registered
Amount to be
registered(1)
Proposed maximum
offering price
per share(2)
Proposed maximum
aggregate offering
price(1, 2)
Amount of
registration
fee
Common stock, par value $.01 per share 1,000,000 $ 1.08 $ 1,080,000 $ 42.44
(1) Represents the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable under the American Claims Evaluation, Inc. 2007 Stock Incentive Plan (the ‘‘Plan’’).
(2) Based on a per share exercise price of $1.08 per share and is estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the ‘‘Securities Act’’). The price per share is estimated based on the average of the high and low sale prices for the common stock, par value $.01 per share (‘‘Common Stock’’), of American Claims Evaluation, Inc. (the ‘‘Company’’) on November 13, 2007, as reported on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC.




PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

(a)    The documents constituting Part I of this Registration Statement will be sent or given to participants in the Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act. Such documents are not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’) either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to the note to Part I of Form S-8. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this form, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

(b)    Upon written or oral request, the Company will provide, without charge, the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement. The documents are incorporated by reference in the Section 10(a) prospectus. The Company will also provide, without charge, upon written or oral request, other documents required to be delivered to participants in the Plan pursuant to Rule 428(b). Requests for the above-mentioned information should be directed to Gary J. Knauer, the Company’s Secretary, at the address and telephone number on the cover of this Registration Statement.

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PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.    Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Commission by the Company, pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the ‘‘Exchange Act’’), are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

(1)  The description of the Company’s Common Stock contained in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (Registration No. 0-14807) filed with the Commission on July 18, 1986 under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
(2)  The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended March 31, 2007, filed with the Commission on June 27, 2007.
(3)  The Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the three months ended June 30, 2007, filed with the Commission on August 10, 2007.
(4)  The Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the three and six months ended September 30, 2007, filed with the Commission on November 14, 2007.
(5)  The Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on August 10, 2007, October 11, 2007 and November 8, 2007, respectively.

All documents filed or subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities described herein have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents with the Commission.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.    Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5.    Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.

Item 6.    Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 722 of the New York Business Corporation Law (‘‘BCL’’) permits, in general, a New York corporation to indemnify any person made, or threatened to be made, a party to an action or proceeding by reason of the fact that he or she was a director or officer of the corporation, or served another entity in any capacity at the request of the corporation, against any judgment, fines, amounts paid in settlement and reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees actually and necessarily incurred as a result of such action or proceeding, or any appeal therein, if such person acted in good faith, for a purpose he or she reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for another entity, not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation and, in criminal actions or proceedings, in addition had no reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful. Section 723 of the BCL

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permits the corporation to pay in advance of a final disposition of such action or proceeding the expenses incurred in defending such action or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay such amount as, and to the extent, required by statute. Section 721 of the BCL provides that the indemnification and advancement of expense provisions contained in the BCL shall not be deemed exclusive of any rights to which a director or officer seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled, provided no indemnification may be made on behalf of any director or officer if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the director or officer establishes that his or her acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active or deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or that he or she personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he or she was not legally entitled. Section 724 of th e BCL provides that a person who is entitled to indemnification may seek such indemnification in court. Section 725 of the BCL provides that expenses which were advanced to a person in defending a civil or criminal action in connection with services performed as an officer and director shall be returned if it is ultimately determined that such person was not entitled to indemnification. Section 726 of the BCL provides that a corporation has the power to purchase and maintain insurance to cover claims for indemnification.

Article Sixth of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, provides that it is the intention of the Company to permit a director to obtain the most beneficial treatment to directors with respect to protection from and against costs, expenses and liabilities incurred as a result of service as such, and the benefits of indemnification as may be hereafter permitted to directors of a New York corporation under the laws of the State of New York.

In accordance with that provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, the By-Laws of the Company provide that the Company shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Registrant) including an action by or in the right of any other company of any type or kind, domestic or foreign, or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise which any director or officer of the Company served in any capacity at the request of the Company, by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate, is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving such other company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise in any capacity, against judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding or any appeal therein, if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for any other company or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil or criminal, by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not in or of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for any other company or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of the Company, or had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

The By-Laws of the Company also provide that the Company shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, or any appeal therein, by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate, is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director or officer of another company of any type of kind, domestic or foreign, of any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise against amounts paid in settlement and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action, suit or proceeding or in connection with an appeal therein if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for any other company or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best

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interests of the Company, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of (1) a threatened action, or a pending action which is settled or otherwise disposed of, or (2) any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Company, unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action, suit or proceeding was brought, or if no action, suit or proceeding was brought, any court of competent jurisdiction shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability and in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses and settlement amount which the court shall deem proper.

The indemnification rights referred to above shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a director or officer seeking indemnification may be entitled under any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, in connection with any action, suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, (including an action brought by or on behalf of the Company) by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate, is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director or officer of another company, of any type of kind, domestic or foreign, or of any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, provided that no indemnification may be made to, or on behalf of, any director or officer if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the director or officer establishes that his acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or that he personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he was not legally entitled.

The Company has the power to purchase and maintain insurance in connection with the foregoing indemnification provisions.

At present, there is no pending litigation or other proceeding involving a director or officer of the Company as to which indemnification is being sought, nor is the Company aware of any threatened litigation that may result in claims for indemnification by any officer or director.

Item 7.    Exemption From Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8.    Exhibits.


Exhibit Number Description
4 .1 Certificate of Incorporation of the Company as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-18, File No. 2-99625-NY, dated March 31, 1986).
4 .2 Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for its year ended March 31, 1989).
4 .3 By-Laws of the Company.*
4 .4 Specimen Common Share certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 48 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-18, File No. 2-99625-NY, dated March 31, 1986).
5 Opinion of Siller Wilk LLP regarding the legality of the securities being registered.*
23 .1 Consent of Siller Wilk LLP to the filing of its opinion (included in Exhibit 5).*
23 .2 Consent of J.H. Cohn LLP to the incorporation by reference of their report on the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2007.*
24 Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this Registration Statement).*
* Filed herewith.

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Item 9.    Undertakings.

(a)    The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to:

(1)    File, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to:

(i)    Include any prospectus required by section 10(a) (3) of the Securities Act;

(ii)    Reflect in the prospectus any facts or events which, individually or together, represent a fundamental change in the information in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the ‘‘Calculation of Registration Fee’’ table in the effective registration statement; and

(iii)    include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution;

Provided, however, that paragraphs (a) (1) (i) and (a) (1) (ii) of this section do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

(2)    That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act, each such post- effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3)    To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Jericho, State of New York, on this 16th day of November, 2007.

AMERICAN CLAIMS EVALUATION, INC.
/s/ Gary Gelman                                                            
Name:   Gary Gelman
Title:    President and Chief Executive Officer

KNOW TO ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Gary J. Knauer his true and lawful attorney-in-fact with power of substitution and resubstitution to sign in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to do any and all things and execute any and all instruments that such attorney may deem necessary or advisable under the Securities Act and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Commission in connection with this registration statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments hereto, as fully for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, and hereby ratifies and confirms all said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, and his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

/s/ Gary Gelman Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive
Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
November 16, 2007
Gary Gelman
/s/ Gary J. Knauer Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer and Secretary
(Principal Financial and Principal
Accounting Officer)
November 16, 2007
Gary J. Knauer
/s/ Edward M. Elkin Director November 16, 2007
Edward M. Elkin
/s/ Peter Gutmann Director November 16, 2007
Peter Gutmann
/s/ Joseph Looney Director November 16, 2007
Joseph Looney




EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit Number Description
4 .1 Certificate of Incorporation of the Company as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-18, File No. 2-99625-NY, dated March 31, 1986).
4 .2 Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for its year ended March 31, 1989).
4 .3 By-Laws of the Company.*
4 .4 Specimen Common Share certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 48 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-18, File No. 2-99625-NY, dated March 31, 1986).
5 Opinion of Siller Wilk LLP regarding the legality of the securities being registered.*
23 .1 Consent of Siller Wilk LLP to the filing of its opinion (included in Exhibit 5).*
23 .2 Consent of J.H. Cohn LLP to the incorporation by reference of their report on the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2007.*
24 Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this Registration Statement).*
* Filed herewith.



EX-4.3 2 file2.htm BY LAWS

Exhibit 4.3

BY LAWS
OF
AMERICAN CLAIMS EVALUATION, INC.
(A NEW YORK CORPORATION)

ARTICLE I

SHAREHOLDERS

1.    STOCK CERTIFICATES AND UNCERTIFICATED SHARES.    The shares of stock of the Company may be represented by certificates or may be uncertificated. Each holder of stock in the Company shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the Company by, the Chairman of the Board, President or any Vice President and by the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or Assistant Secretary, certifying the number of shares owned by him in the Company. Where any such certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent other than the Company or its employee, or by a registrar other than the Company or its employee, any other signature on the certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer ag ent, or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon any such certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent, or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Company with the same effect as if he were such officer, transfer agent, or registrar at the date of issue. Absent a specific request for such a certificate by the registered owner or transferee thereof, all shares may be uncertificated upon the original issuance thereof by the Company or upon surrender of the certificate representing such shares to the Company or its transfer agent.

The Board of Directors may direct uncertificated shares or, if requested by the registered owner, a new certificate or certificates to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the Company alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of uncertificated shares or a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his legal representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or to give the Company a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Company with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.

2.    FRACTIONAL SHARE INTERESTS.    The corporation may issue certificates for fractions of a share where necessary to effect transactions authorized by the Business Corporation Law which shall entitle the holder, in proportion to his fractional holdings, to exercise voting rights, receive dividends, and participate in liquidating distributions; or it may pay in cash the fair value of fractions of a share as of the time when those entitled to receive such fractions are determined; or it may issue scrip in registered or bearer form over the manual or facsimile signature of an officer of the corporation or of its agent, exchangeable as therein provided for full shares, but such scrip shall not entitle the holder to any ri ghts of a shareholder except as therein provided.

3.    TRANSFERS OF STOCK.    Transfers of record of shares of the capital stock of the Company shall be made upon its books by the holders thereof, in person or by attorney duly authorized, and upon either the surrender of a certificate or certificates for a like number of shares, properly endorsed or accompanied by a properly endorsed stock power, or upon presentation of proper transfer instructions from the holder of record of uncertificated shares.

4.    RECORD DATE FOR SHAREHOLDERS.    For the purpose of determining the shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of shareholders or any adjournment thereof, or to express consent to or dissent from any proposal without a meeting, or for the purpose





of determining shareholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or the allotment of any rights, or for the purpose of any other action, the directors may fix, in advance, a date as the record date for any such determination of shareholders. Such date shall not be more than fifty days nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting, nor more than fifty days prior to any other action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders shall be at the close of the business on the next day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if no notice is given, the day on which the meeting is held; the record date for determining shareholders for any purpose other than that specified in the preceding clause shall be at the close of business on the day on which the resolution of the directors relating thereto is adopted. When a determination of shareholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a ny meeting of shareholders has been made as provided in this paragraph, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof, unless directors fix a new record date under this paragraph for the adjourned meeting.

5.    MEANING OF CERTAIN TERMS.    As used herein in respect of the right to notice of a meeting of shareholders or a waiver thereof or to participate or to vote thereat or to consent or dissent in writing in lieu of a meeting, as the case may be, the term ‘‘share’’ or ‘‘shares’’ or ‘‘shareholder’’ or ‘‘shareholders’’ refers to an outstanding share or shares and to a holder or holders of record of outstanding shares when the corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares, and said reference is also intended to include any outstanding share or shares and any holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of any class upon which or upon whom the Certificate of Incorporation confers such rights where there are two or more classes or series of shares or upon which or upon whom the Business Corporation Law confers such rights notwithstanding that the Certificate of Incorporation may provide for more than one class or series of shares, one or more of which are limited or denied such rights thereunder.

6.    SHAREHODER MEETINGS.

  TIME.    The annual meeting shall be held on the date fixed, from time to time, by the directors, provided, that the first annual meeting shall be held on a date within thirteen months after the formation of the corporation, and each successive annual meeting shall be held on a date within thirteen months after the date of the proceeding annual meeting. A special meeting shall be held on the date fixed by the directors except when the Business Corporation Law confers the right to fix the date upon shareholders.
  PLACE.    The annual meeting and special meeting shall be held at such place, within or without the State of New York, as the directors may, from time to time, fix. Whenever the directors shall fail to fix such place, or, whenever the shareholders entitled to call a special meeting shall call the same, the meeting shall be held at the office of the corporation in the State of New York.
  CALL.    Annual meetings may be called by the directors or by any officer instructed by the directors to call the meeting. Special meetings may be called in like manner except when the directors are required by the Business Corporation Law to call a meeting, or except when the shareholders are entitled by said Law to demand the call of a meeting.
  NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER OF NOTICE.    Written notice of all meetings shall be given, stating the place, date, and hour of the meeting, and, unless it is an annual meeting, indicating that it is being issued by or at the direction of the person or persons calling the meeting. The notice of an annual meeting shall state that the meeting is called for the election of directors and for the transaction of other business which may properly come before the meeting, and shall, (if any other action which could be taken at a special meeting is to be taken at such annual meeting) state the purpose or purposes. The n otice of a special meeting shall in all instances state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called; and, at any such meeting, only such business may be transacted which is related to the purpose or purposes set forth in the notice. If the directors shall adopt, amend, or repeal a by-law regulating an impending election of directors, the notice of the meeting for election of directors shall contain the statements prescribed by Section 601 (b) of the




  Business Corporation Law. If any action is proposed to be taken which would, if taken, entitle shareholders to receive payment for their shares, the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. A copy of the notice of any meeting shall be given, personally or by first class mail, not less than ten days nor more than fifty days before the date of meeting, unless the lapse of the prescribed period of time shall have been waived, to each shareholder at his record address or at such other address which he may have furnished by request in writing to the Secretary of the corporation. Notice by mail shall be deemed to be given when deposited, with the postage thereon prepaid, in a post office or official depository under the exclusive care and custody of the United States post office department. If a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, and, if an announcement of the adjourned time and place is made at the meeting, it shall not be necessary to give notice of the adjourned meeting u nless the directors, after adjournment, fix a new date for the adjourned meeting. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any shareholder who submits a signed waiver of notice before or after the meeting. The attendance of a shareholder at a meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion of the meeting the lack of notice or such meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice by him.
  SHAREHOLDER LIST AND CHALLENGE.    A list of shareholders as of the record date, certified by the Secretary or other officer responsible for its preparation or by the transfer agent, if any, shall be produced at any meeting of shareholders upon the request thereat or prior thereto of any shareholder. If the right to vote at any meeting is challenged, the inspectors of election, if any, or the person presiding thereat, shall require such list of shareholders to be produced as evidence of the right of the person challenged to vote at such meeting, and all persons who appear from such list to be shareholders entitled to vot e thereat may vote at such meeting.
  CONDUCT OF MEETING.    Meetings of the shareholders shall be presided over by one of the following officers in the order of seniority and if present and acting – the Chairman of the Board, if any, the Vice-Chairman of the Board, if any, the President, a Vice-President, or, if none of the foregoing is in office and present and acting, by a Chairman to be chosen by the shareholders. The Secretary of the corporation, or in his absence, an Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary of every meeting, but if neither the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is present the Chairman of the meeting shall appoint a secretary of the meeting.
  PROXY REPRESENTATION.    Shareholder may authorize another person or persons to act for him by proxy in all matters in which a shareholder is entitled to participate, whether by waiving notice of any meeting, voting or participating at a meeting, or expressing consent or dissent without a meeting. Every proxy must be signed by the shareholder or his attorney-in-fact. No proxy shall be valid after the expiration of eleven months from the date thereof unless otherwise provided in the proxy. Every proxy shall be revocable at the pleasure of the shareholder executing it, except as otherwise provided by the Business Corporati on Law.
  INSPECTORS — APPOINTMENT.    The directors, in advance of any meeting, may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If an inspector or inspectors are not appointed, the person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors. In case any person who may be appointed as an inspector fails to appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the directors in advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding thereat. Each inspector, if any, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign a n oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability. The inspectors, if any, shall determine the number of shares outstanding and the voting power of each, the shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes, ballots or consents, determine the results, and do such




  acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with the fairness to all shareholders. On request of the person presiding at the meeting or any shareholder, the inspectors of inspectors, if any, shall make a report in writing of any challenge, question or matter determined by him or them and execute a certificate of any fact found by him or them.
  QUORUM.    Except for a special election of directors pursuant to Section 603 (b) of the Business Corporation Law, and except as herein otherwise provided, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of shareholders for the transaction of any business. When a quorum is once present to organize a meeting, it is not broken by the subsequent withdrawal of any shareholders. The shareholders present may adjourn the meeting despite the absence of a quorum.
  VOTING.    Each share shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote. In the election of directors, a plurality of the votes cast shall elect. Any other action shall be authorized by a majority of the votes cast except where the Business Corporation Law prescribes a different proportion of votes.

7.    SHAREHOLDER ACTION WITHOUT MEETINGS.    Whenever shareholders are required or permitted to take any action by vote, such action may be taken without a meeting on written consent, setting forth the action so taken, signed by the holders of all shares.

8.    REGULATIONS.    Except to the extent that the exercise of such power shall be prohibited or circumscribed by these By-Laws, by the Certificate of Incorporation, or other certificate filed pursuant to law, or by statute, the Board of Directors shall have power to make such rules and regulations concerning the issuance, registration, transfer and cancellation of stock certificates and uncertificated shares as it shall deem appropriate.

ARTICLE II

GOVERNING BOARD

1.    FUNCTIONS AND DEFINITIONS.    The business of the corporation shall be managed under the direction of a governing board, which is herein referred to as the ‘‘Board of Directors’’ or ‘‘directors’’ notwithstanding that the members thereof may otherwise bear the titles of trustees, managers, or governors or any other designated title, and notwithstanding that only one director legally constitutes the Board. The word ‘‘director’’ or ‘‘directors’’ likewise herein refers to a member or to members of the governing board notwithstanding the designation of a different official title or titles. The use of the phrase ‘‘ entire board’’ herein refers to the total number of directors which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies.

2.    QUALIFICATIONS AND NUMBER.    Each director shall be at least eighteen years of age. A director need not be a shareholder, a citizen of the United States, or a resident of the State of New York. The Board of Directors shall consist of no fewer than three, except that, where all the shares are owned beneficially and of by record less than three shareholders, the number of directors may be less than three but not less than the number of such shareholders. Subject to the foregoing limitation and except for the first Board of Directors, such number may be fixed from time to time by action of the shareholders or of the directors. The number of directors may be increased or decreased by action of the shareholders or of t he directors, provided that any action of the directors to effect such increase or decrease shall require the vote of a majority of the entire Board. No decrease shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

3.    ELECTION AND TERM.    The first Board of Directors shall be elected by the incorporator of incorporators and shall hold office until the first annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified. Thereafter, directors who are elected at an annual meeting of shareholders, and directors who are elected in the interim by the shareholders to fill vacancies and newly created directorships, shall hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified; and directors who are elected in the interim by the directors to fill vacancies and newly created directorships shall hold office until the next meeting of





shareholders at which the election of directors is in the regular order of business and until their successors have been elected and qualified. In the interim between annual meetings of shareholders or of special meetings of shareholders called for the election of directors, newly created directorships and any vacancies in the Board of Directors, including vacancies resulting from the removal of directors for cause or without cause, may be filled by the vote of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum exists.

4.    MEETINGS.

  TIME.    Meetings shall be held at such time as the Board shall fix, except that the first meeting of a newly elected Board shall be held as soon after its election as the directors may conveniently assemble.
  PLACE.    Meetings shall be held at such place within or without the State of New York as such shall be fixed by the Board.
  CALL.    No call shall be required for regular meetings for which the time and place have been fixed. Special meetings may be called by or at the direction of the Chairman of the Board, if any, of the President, or of a majority of the directors in office.
  NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER.    No notice shall be required for regular meetings for which the time and place have been fixed. Written, oral, or any other mode of notice of the time and place shall be given for special meetings in sufficient time for the convenient assembly of the special meetings in sufficient time for the convenient assembly of the directors thereat. The notice of any meeting need not specify the purpose of the meeting. Any requirement of furnishing a notice shall be waived by any director who signs a waiver of notice before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protestin g, prior thereto or at its commencement, the lack of notice to him.
  QUORUM AND ACTION.    A majority of the entire Board shall constitute a quorum except when a vacancy or vacancies prevents such majority, whereupon a majority of the directors in office shall constitute a quorum, provided such a majority shall constitute at least one-third of the entire Board. A majority of the directors present, whether or not a quorum is present, may adjourn a meeting to another time and place. Except as herein otherwise provided, the act of the Board shall be the act, at a meeting duly assembled, by the vote of a majority of the directors present at the time of the vote, a quorum being present at such time.

Any one or more members of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of said Board or of any such committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment allowing all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other at the same time, and participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

  CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING.    The Chairman of the Board, if any, and if present and acting, shall preside at all meetings. Otherwise, the President, if present and acting, or any other director chosen by the Board, shall preside.

5.    REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS.    Any or all of the directors may be removed for cause or without cause by the shareholders. One or more of the directors may be removed for cause by the Board of Directors.

6.    COMMITTEES.    Whenever the Board of Directors shall consist of more than three members, the Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board of Directors, may designate from their number three or more directors to constitute an Executive Committee and other committees, each of which, to the extent provided in the resolution designating it, shall have the authority of the Board of Directors with the exception of any authority the delegation of which is prohibited by Section 712 of the Business Corporation Law.





7.    WRITTEN ACTION.    Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board of Directors or by any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof consent in writing to the adoption of a resolution authorizing the action. The resolution and the written consents thereto by the members of the Board of Directors or any such committee shall be filed with the minutes of the proceeding of the Board of Directors or of any such committee.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

The directors may elect pr appoint a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a President, one or more Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, one or more Assistant Secretaries, a Treasurer, one or more Assistant Treasurers, and such other officers as they may determine. The President may but need not be a director. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person except the offices of President and Secretary; however, when all of the issued and outstanding shares of the corporation are owned by one person, such person may hold all or any combination of offices.

Unless otherwise provided in the resolution of election or appointment, each officer shall hold office until the meeting of the Board of Directors, following the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor had been elected and qualified.

Officers shall have the powers and duties defined in the resolutions appointing them.

The Board of Directors may remove any officer for cause or without cause.

ARTICLE IV

STATUTORY NOTICES TO SHAREHOLDERS

The directors may appoint the Treasurer or other fiscal officer and/or the Secretary or any other officer to cause to be prepared and furnished to shareholders entitled thereto any special financial notice and/or any financial statement, as the case may be, which may be required by any provision of law, and which, more specifically, may be required by Sections 510, 511, 515, 516, 517, 519, and 520 of the Business Corporation Law.

ARTICLE V

BOOKS AND RECORDS

The corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of account and shall keep minutes of the proceedings of the shareholders, of the Board of Directors, and/or any committee which the directors may appoint, and shall keep at the office of the corporation in the State of New York or at the office of the transfer agent or registrar, if any, in said state, a record containing the names and addresses of all shareholders, the number and class of shares held by each, and the dates when they respectively became the owners of record thereof. Any of the foregoing books, minutes or records, may be in written form or in any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time.

ARTICLE VI

CORPORATE SEAL

The corporate seal, if any, shall be in such form as the Board of Directors shall prescribe.

ARTICLE VII

FISCAL YEAR

The first fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed, and shall be subject to change from time to time, by the Board of Directors.





ARTICLE VIII

INDEMNIFICATION

SECTION 1.    The corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suite or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) including an action by or in the right of any other company of any type or kind, domestic or foreign, or any partnership joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise which any director or officer of the corporation served in any capacity at the request of the corporation, by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate, is or was a director or officer of the corporation, or is or was serving such other company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise in any capacity, against judgments, fines, a mounts paid in settlement and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding or any appeal therein, if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for any other company or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding whether civil or criminal, by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not in or of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or, in t he case of service for any other company or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation, or had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

SECTION 2.    The corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, or any appeal therein, by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate, is or was a director or officer of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director or officer of another company of any type or kind, domestic or foreign, of any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise against amounts paid in settlement and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action, suit or proceeding or in connection with an appeal therein if he acte d in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for any other company or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that no indemnification, shall be made in respect of (1) a threatened action, or a pending action which is settled or otherwise disposed of, or (2) any claim, issued or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation, unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action, suit or proceeding was brought, or if no action, suit or proceeding was brought, any court or competent jurisdiction shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability and in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses and settlement amount which the court shall deem proper.

SECTION 3.    To the extent that a director or officer had been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Sections 1 and 2, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be entitled to indemnification as authorized in such sections.

SECTION 4.    Any indemnification under Sections 1 and 2 (except as set forth in Section 3 or unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case: (1) by the Board of Directors by a majority vote of quorum consisting of directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding upon a determination that indemnification of the director or officer is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Sections 1 and 2, or (2) if such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, (a) by the Board upon the written opinion of independent legal counsel that indemnification is proper in the circumstances because the applicable standard of conduct





set forth in Sections 1 and 2 has been met, or (b) by the shareholders upon a finding that the director or officer has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Sections 1 and 2.

SECTION 5.    Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as set forth in Section 4 or as ordered by a court in the specific case, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined as set forth in Section 4 or as ordered by a court that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this Article or otherwise or where indemnification is granted, to the extent the expenses so advanced by the corporation or allowed by the court exceed the indemnification to which he is entitled.

SECTION 6.    The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by or granted pursuant to the other sections of this Article shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a director or officer seeking indemnification and advancement of expenses may be entitled under any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, in connection with any action, suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, (including an action brought by or on behalf of the corporation) by reason of the fact that he, his testator or intestate, is or was a director or officer of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director or officer of another company, of any type or kind, domestic or foreign, or of any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, provided that no indemnific ation may be made to, or on behalf of, any director or officer if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the director or officer establishes that his acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or that he personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he was not legally entitled.

SECTION 7.

(A)    The corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance:

(1)   To indemnify the corporation for any obligation which it incurs as a result of the indemnification of directors and officers under the provisions of this article, and
(2)  To indemnify directors and officers in instances in which they may be indemnified by the corporation under the provisions of this article, and
(3)   To indemnify directors and officers in instances in which they may not otherwise be indemnified by the corporation under the provisions of this article provided the contract of insurance covering such directors and officers provides, in a manner acceptable to the superintendent of insurance, for a retention amount and for co-insurance.

(B)    No insurance under paragraph (A) may provide for any payment, other than cost of defense, to or on behalf of any director or officer:

(1)  if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the insured director or officer establishes that his acts of active and deliberate dishonestly were material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or that he personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he was not legally entitled, or
(2)  in relation to any risk the insurance of which is prohibited under the insurance law of this state.




ARTICLE IX

CONTROL OVER BY-LAWS.

The shareholders entitled to vote in the election of directors or the directors upon compliance with any statutory requisite may amend or repeal the By-Laws and may adopt new By-Laws, except that the directors may not amend or repeal any By-Law or adopt any new By-Law, the statutory control over which is vested exclusively in the said shareholders or in the incorporators. By-Laws adopted by the incorporators or directors may be amended or repealed by the said shareholders.

Dated: August 8, 2007




EX-5 3 file3.htm OPINION OF SILLER WILK LLP

Exhibit 5

SILLER WILK LLP
675 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017

November 16, 2007

American Claims Evaluation, Inc.
One Jericho Plaza
Jericho, New York 11753

Re:    Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

American Claims Evaluation, Inc., a New York corporation (the ‘‘Company’’), is registering for sale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the ‘‘Securities Act’’), pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8 (the ‘‘Registration Statement’’), up to 1,000,000 shares (the ‘‘Shares’’) of Common Stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (‘‘Common Stock’’). The Shares have been reserved for issuance upon exercise of stock options and awards that have been granted under the Company’s 2007 Stock Incentive Plan (the ‘‘Plan’’).

Siller Wilk LLP acts as Counsel to the Company. In such capacity, we have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of (a) the Registration Statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’) on the date hereof, (b) the Plan, (c) a specimen certificate evidencing the Common Stock, (d) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as presently in effect, (e) the By-Laws of the Company, as presently in effect, (f) certain resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company relating to, among other things, the Plan, (g) the minutes of the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Company held on October 9, 2007 and October 31, 2007, (h) the Company’s periodic Commission filings for all relevant periods and (i) such other documents as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinions set forth below.

In our examination, we have assumed the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted as certified, conformed or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents. In examining documents executed or to be executed by parties other than the Company, we have assumed that such parties had the power, corporate or other, to enter into and perform all obligations thereunder and have also assumed the due authorization by all requisite action, corporate or other, and execution and delivery by such parties of such documents and the validity and binding effect thereof on such parties. As to any facts material to the opinions expressed herein which we did not independently establish or verify, we have relied upon certificates, statements or representations of officers and other representa tives of the Company, public officials and others. In rendering the opinion set forth below, we have assumed that (i) the certificates representing the Shares under the Plan will be manually signed by one of the authorized officers of the transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock and registered by such transfer agent and registrar and will conform to the specimen thereof examined by us and (ii) prior to the issuance of any Shares under the Plan, the Company and the relevant optionee will have duly entered into stock option or similar agreements (‘‘Agreements’’) in accordance with the Board Resolutions and the Plan, as the case may be.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares under the Plan have been duly and validly authorized for issuance and, when delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Agreements, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.





We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as Exhibit 5 to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules or regulations of the Commission thereunder.

Very truly yours,
Siller Wilk LLP
By: /s/ Joel I. Frank                                         
        Joel I. Frank,
        a partner of the firm



EX-23.2 4 file4.htm CONSENT OF INDEP REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors
American Claims Evaluation, Inc. and Subsidiary:

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this registration statement on Form S-8 of American Claims Evaluation, Inc. and Subsidiary of our report dated June 18, 2007 on the consolidated balance sheets of American Claims Evaluation, Inc. and Subsidiary as of March 31, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the years then ended, which report appears in the March 31, 2007 annual report on Form 10-KSB of American Claims Evaluation, Inc. and Subsidiary.

/s/ J.H. Cohn LLP                

Jericho, New York
November 14, 2007




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