Exhibit 10.2

 

UNIVERSAL HOSPITAL SERVICES, INC.

STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT

(Nonqualified Stock Option)

 

STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT (this “Option Agreement”) entered into as of April 9,
2004 by and between Universal Hospital Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), and Samuel Humphries (the “Optionee”).

 

WHEREAS, the Company has decided to grant the Optionee a nonqualified stock
option to acquire shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.01 par value per
share (“Shares”), in accordance with the Universal Hospital Services, Inc. 2003
Stock Option Plan (the “Plan”); and

 

WHEREAS, the Optionee desires to accept such option subject to the terms and
conditions of this Option Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and
agreements contained herein, the Company and the Optionee, intending to be
legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

1. Grant of Option. As of April 9, 2004 (the “Grant Date”), the Company grants
to the Optionee a nonqualified stock option (the “Option”) to purchase all (or
any part) of 72,000 Shares on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
This Option is not intended to be treated as an incentive stock option under
Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).

 

2. Exercise Price. The exercise price (“Exercise Price”) for the Shares covered
by the Option shall be $1.00 per share.

 

3. Exercisability. This Option shall become exercisable with respect to 18,000
Shares on October 1, 2004 and shall become exercisable with respect to 18,000
Shares upon each of October 1, 2005, October 1, 2006 and October 1, 2007. All
Options subject to vesting pursuant to this Section 3 shall become exercisable
upon a Change in Control (as defined in Section 14b) if the Optionee continues
to be an employee (or a director or consultant, as applicable) of the Company or
any Subsidiary at such time, to the extent not then exercisable.

 

4. Term of Options.

 

(a) Each Option shall expire on the tenth anniversary of the Grant Date, unless
terminated earlier pursuant to subsections 4(b) and 4(c) below.

 

(b) If the Optionee is removed as a director for Cause (as defined in Section
14), the Option shall terminate on the date of such termination of employment,
whether or not then fully exercisable.

 

(c) If the Optionee dies, is Disabled (as defined in Section 14) while a
director, or is removed as a director without Cause or otherwise resigns as a
director, any portion of the Option that is not then fully exercisable shall
terminate immediately; provided, however, that the Board of Directors or
committee appointed by the Board of Directors for purposes of administration and
operation of the Plan (the “Committee”) shall have the discretion to vest any
Options that are

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of Directors or committee appointed by the Board of Directors for purposes of
administration and operation of the Plan (the “Committee”) shall have the
discretion to vest any Options that are not exercisable. Any portion of the
Option that is then exercisable shall terminate on the 90th day following such
termination of employment.

 

5. Manner of Exercise of Option.

 

(a) The Optionee may exercise the Option or portion thereof by giving written
notice to the Company stating the number of Shares (which shall not be less than
100, unless the total Shares purchased constitute the total number of Shares
remaining subject to the Option) to be purchased and accompanied by payment in
full of the Exercise Price for such Shares. Payment shall be in cash by wire
transfer of immediately available funds to an account specified by the Company
by a certified or bank cashier’s check payable to the Company, or at any time
Shares are registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, by means of a “cashless exercise” approved by the Committee, in
which a broker: (i) transmits the Exercise Price for any Shares to the Company
in cash or acceptable cash equivalents, either (A) against the Optionee’s notice
of exercise and the Company’s confirmation that it will deliver to the broker
stock certificates issued in the name of the broker for at least that number of
Shares having a fair market value equal to the Exercise Price therefor, or (B)
as the proceeds of a margin loan to the Optionee; or (ii) agrees to pay the
Exercise Price therefor to the Company in cash or acceptable cash equivalents
upon the broker’s receipt from the Company of stock certificates issued in the
name of the broker for at least that number of Shares having a fair market value
equal to the Exercise Price therefor. The Optionee’s written notice of exercise
of the Option pursuant to a “cashless exercise” procedure must include the name
and address of the broker involved, a clear description of the procedure, and
such other information or undertaking by the broker as the Committee shall
reasonably require. Upon such purchase, delivery of a certificate for paid-up,
non-assessable Shares shall be made at the principal office of the Company to
the Optionee (or the person entitled to exercise the Option pursuant to Section
7), not more than 10 days from the date of receipt of the notice by the Company.

 

(b) Notwithstanding Section 5(a) of this Option Agreement, the Company may delay
the issuance of Shares covered by the Option and the delivery of a certificate
for such Shares until one of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) the
Shares purchased pursuant to the Option are at the time of the issuance of such
Shares effectively registered or qualified under applicable federal and state
securities laws or (ii) such Shares are exempt from registration and
qualification under applicable federal and state securities laws.

 

6. Administration. This Option Agreement shall be administered by the Committee
pursuant to the Plan. The Committee shall be authorized to interpret this Option
Agreement and to make all other determinations necessary or advisable for the
administration of this Option Agreement. The determinations of the Committee in
the administration of this Option Agreement, as described herein, shall be final
and conclusive. Each of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer
and the Senior Vice President, Human Resources of the Company shall be
authorized to implement this Option Agreement in accordance with its terms and
to take such actions of a ministerial nature as shall be necessary to effectuate
the intent and purposes thereof.

 

7. Non-Transferability. Subject to the terms of the Stockholders Agreement (as
defined below), the right of the Optionee to exercise the Option shall not be
assignable or

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transferable by the Optionee otherwise than by will or the laws of descent and
distribution, and such Shares may be purchased during the lifetime of the
Optionee only by him (or his legal representative in the event that the Optionee
is Disabled). Any other such transfer shall be null and void and without effect
upon any attempted assignment or transfer, except as hereinabove provided,
including without limitation any purported assignment, whether voluntary or by
operation of law, pledge, hypothecation or other disposition contrary to the
provisions hereof, or levy of execution, attachment, trustee process or similar
process, whether legal or equitable, upon the Option.

 

8. Representation Letter and Investment Legend.

 

(a) In the event that for any reason the Shares to be issued upon exercise of an
exercisable Option shall not be effectively registered under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), upon any date on which the Option is
exercised, the Optionee (or the person exercising the Option pursuant to Section
7) shall give a written representation to the Company in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit A, and the Company shall place the legend described on Exhibit
A, upon any certificate for the Shares issued by reason of such exercise.

 

(b) The Company shall be under no obligation to qualify Shares or to cause a
registration statement or a post-effective amendment to any registration
statement to be prepared for the purposes of covering the issue of Shares;
provided, that the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to comply with
any available exemption from registration and qualification of the Shares under
applicable federal and state securities laws.

 

9. Adjustments upon Changes in Capitalization.

 

(a) In the event that the outstanding Shares are changed into or exchanged for a
different number or kind of shares or other securities of the Company or of
another corporation by reason of any reorganization, merger, consolidation,
recapitalization, reclassification, stock split-up, combination of shares, or
dividends payable in capital stock, appropriate adjustment shall be made in the
number and kind of shares, and the Exercise Price therefor, as to which the
Option, to the extent not theretofore exercised, shall be exercisable.

 

(b) Unless otherwise determined by the Committee in its sole discretion, in the
case of a Change in Control (as hereinafter defined) of the Company, the
purchaser(s) of the Company’s assets or stock may, in his, her or its
discretion, deliver to the Optionee, to the extent that the Option has become
exercisable, the same kind of consideration (net of the Exercise Price for such
Shares) that is delivered to the stockholders of the Company as a result of the
Change in Control, or the Committee may, in its sole determination, cancel the
Option, to the extent not theretofore exercised, in exchange for consideration
in cash or in kind, which consideration in either case shall be equal in value
to the value of those shares of stock or other consideration the Optionee would
have received had the Option been exercised (to the extent the Option has become
exercisable but not been exercised) and no disposition of the Shares acquired
upon such exercise been made prior to the Change in Control, less the Exercise
Price therefor. Upon receipt of such consideration by the Optionee, the Option
shall immediately terminate and be of no further force and effect, with respect
to both exercisable and unexercisable portions thereof. The value of the stock
or other securities the Optionee would have received if the Option had been
exercised shall be determined in good faith by the Committee.

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(c) Upon dissolution or liquidation of the Company, the Option shall terminate,
but the Optionee (if at such time an Employee or consultant) shall have the
right, immediately prior to filing of a certificate of dissolution or
liquidation, to exercise any then exercisable Options.

 

(d) No fraction of a Share shall be purchasable or deliverable upon the exercise
of the Option, but in the event any adjustment hereunder of the number of shares
covered by the Option shall cause such number to include a fraction of a share,
such fraction shall be adjusted to the nearest smaller whole number of shares.

 

10. No Employment Rights Conferred. Nothing contained in this Option Agreement
shall be construed or deemed by any person under any circumstances to bind the
Company or any of its subsidiaries to continue the employment of the Optionee
for the period within which this Option may be exercisable or for any other
period.

 

11. Rights as a Stockholder. The Optionee shall have no rights as a stockholder
with respect to any Shares which may be purchased upon the exercisability of
this Option unless and until a certificate or certificates representing such
Shares are duly issued and delivered to the Optionee. Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, no adjustment shall be made for dividends or other
rights for which the record date is prior to the date the stock certificate is
issued.

 

12. Withholding Taxes. The Optionee hereby agrees, as a condition to any
exercise of the Option, to provide to the Company an amount sufficient to
satisfy its obligation to withhold federal, state and local taxes arising by
reason of such exercise (the “Withholding Amount”), if any, by (a) authorizing
the Company to withhold the Withholding Amount from his cash compensation, or
(b) remitting the Withholding Amount to the Company in cash; provided that, to
the extent that the Withholding Amount is not provided by one or a combination
of such methods, the Company may at its election withhold from the Shares
delivered upon exercise of the Option that number of Shares having a fair market
value (in the good faith judgment of the Committee) equal to the Withholding
Amount.

 

13. Execution of Stockholders Agreement. The Optionee acknowledges that he has
previously executed and delivered the stockholders agreement by and among the
Company and the stockholders of the Company named therein (the “Stockholders
Agreement”). The Optionee further agrees that this Option Agreement, the Option
and all Shares acquired by him upon exercise of the Option will be subject to
the terms and conditions of the Stockholders Agreement, as the same may be
amended or modified in accordance with its terms.

 

14. Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings when used
in this Agreement and Schedule I to this Agreement:

 

(a) “Cause,” shall mean the occurrence of any of the following while the
Optionee is serving as a director of the Company:

 

(i) the Optionee has failed to perform substantially his duties or has performed
his duties negligently;

 

(ii) the Optionee has committed any serious crime or offense, as determined by
the Board of Directors or the Committee in their respective sole discretion; or

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(iii) the Optionee has breached any provision or covenant contained in this
Option Agreement.

 

(b) “Change in Control” shall mean when (i) any person, or any two or more
persons acting as a group, and all affiliates of such person or persons (a
“Group”) (other than any person or Group affiliated with J.W. Childs Associates
L.P.), who prior to such time beneficially owned less than 50% of the then
outstanding capital stock of the Company shall acquire shares of the Company’s
capital stock in one or more transactions or series of transactions, including
by merger, and after such transaction or transactions such person or Group and
affiliates beneficially own 50% or more of the Company’s outstanding capital
stock, or (ii) the Company shall sell all or substantially all of its assets to
any Group (other than any person or Group affiliated with J.W. Childs Associates
L.P.) which, immediately prior to the time of such transaction, beneficially
owned less than a majority of the then outstanding capital stock of the Company.

 

(c) The Optionee shall be deemed to have become “Disabled” if, while serving as
a director of the Company, the Optionee shall become physically or mentally
disabled, whether totally or partially, either permanently or so that the
Optionee, in the good faith judgment of the Committee, is unable substantially
and competently to perform his duties on behalf of the Company (or a subsidiary
thereof) for a period of 90 consecutive days or for 90 days during any six month
period during the term of employment. In order to assist the Committee in making
that determination, the Optionee shall, as reasonably requested by the
Committee, (i) make himself available for medical examinations by one or more
physicians chosen by the Committee and (ii) grant to the Committee and any such
physicians access to all relevant medical information concerning him, arrange to
furnish copies of his medical records to the Committee and use his best efforts
to cause his own physicians to be available to discuss his health with the
Committee.

 

(d) “Person” shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, trust, unincorporated association, government or any agency
or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity.

 

15. Governing Law. This Option Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the
State of Delaware, without regard to any conflicts of law principles thereof
that would call for the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction. Any
action or proceeding seeking to enforce any provision of, or based on any right
arising out of, this Option Agreement may be brought against either of the
parties in the courts of the State of Delaware, or if it has or can acquire
jurisdiction, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware,
and each of the parties hereby consents to the jurisdiction of such courts (and
of the appropriate appellate courts) in any such action or proceeding and waives
any objection to venue laid therein. Process in any action or proceeding
referred to in the preceding sentence may be served on any party anywhere in the
world, whether within or without the State of Delaware.

 

16. Incorporation of Terms of Plan. This Option Agreement shall be interpreted
under, and in accordance with, all of the terms and provisions of the Plan,
which are incorporated herein by reference.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Stock Option Agreement to be
executed, by its officer thereunto duly authorized, and the Optionee has
executed this Stock Option Agreement, all as of the day and year first above
written.

 

UNIVERSAL HOSPITAL SERVICES INC.

     

OPTIONEE

By: /s/ Gary D. Blackford       By: /s/ Samuel Humphries Name: Gary D. Blackford
      Address:                                      Title: President & CEO      
Telecopier Number:                            Social Security
Number:            

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EXHIBIT A TO STOCK

OPTION AGREEMENT

 

Gentlemen:

 

In connection with the purchase by me of 72,000 shares of common stock, $0.01
par value per share, of Universal Hospital Services, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”) under the nonqualified stock option granted to me
pursuant to that certain Stock Option Agreement dated April 9, 2004 (the “Option
Agreement”), I hereby acknowledge that I have been informed as follows:

 

1. The shares of common stock of the Company to be issued to me upon exercise of
said option have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Act”), and accordingly, must be held indefinitely unless such
shares are subsequently registered under the Act, or an exemption from such
registration is available.

 

2. Routine sales of securities made in reliance upon Rule 144 under the Act can
be made only after the holding period and in limited amounts in accordance with
the terms and conditions provided by that Rule, and with respect to which that
Rule is not applicable, registration or compliance with some other exemption
under the Act will be required.

 

3. The Company is under no obligation to me to register the shares or to comply
with any such exemptions under the Act, other than as set forth in the
Stockholders Agreement referenced and defined in paragraph 13 of the Option
Agreement (the “Stockholders Agreement”).

 

4. The availability of Rule 144 is dependent upon adequate current public
information with respect to the Company being available and, at the time that I
may desire to make a sale pursuant to the Rule, the Company may neither wish nor
be able to comply with such requirement.

 

5. The shares of common stock of the Company to be issued to me upon the
exercise of said option are subject to the terms and conditions, including
restrictions on transfer, of the Stockholders Agreement.

 

In consideration of the issuance of certificates for the shares to me, I hereby
represent and warrant that I am acquiring such shares for my own account for
investment, and that I will not sell, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise transfer
such shares in the absence of an effective registration statement covering the
same, except as permitted by an applicable exemption under the Act. In view of
this representation and warranty, I agree that there may be affixed to the
certificates for the shares to be issued to me, and to all certificates issued
hereafter representing such shares (until in the opinion of counsel, which
opinion must be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to counsel for the
Company, it is no longer necessary or required) a legend as follows:

 

“The securities represented by this certificate have not been registered under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), and may not be sold,
transferred, offered

 

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EXHIBIT A-I

 

for sale, pledged or hypothecated in the absence of an effective registration
statement as to the securities under the Act or an opinion of counsel
satisfactory to the corporation and its counsel that such registration is not
required.”

 

“The securities represented by this certificate are subject to the terms and
conditions, including restrictions on transfer, of a Stockholders Agreement
among the Universal Hospital Services, Inc. and its stockholders dated as of
            , 2003, as amended from time to time, a copy of which is on file at
the principal office of the corporation.”

 

I further agree that the Company may place a stop order with its transfer agent,
prohibiting the transfer of such shares, so long as the legend remains on the
certificates representing the shares.

 

I hereby represent and warrant that: My financial situation is such that I can
afford to bear the economic risk of holding the shares issued to me upon
exercise of said option for an indefinite period of time, I have no need for
liquidity with respect to my investment and have adequate means to provide for
my current needs and personal contingencies, and can afford to suffer the
complete loss of my investment in such shares.

 

(a) I am either please check one of the following):

 

1.    X        an “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501 (a) under
the Act, a copy of which is annexed hereto as Annex I, and I, either alone or
with my purchaser representative (as such term is defined in Rule 501 under the
Act), have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that
I am capable of evaluating the merits and risks of my investment in the shares
issued to me upon exercise of said option. I have indicated the appropriate
categories that apply to me in Annex I hereto. 2.    not an “accredited
investor” within the meaning of Rule 501 (a) under the Act, as I do not fulfill
any of the categories set forth in Annex I, but I have such knowledge and
experience in financial and business matters that I am capable of evaluating the
merits and risks of my investment in the shares issued to me upon exercise of
said option.

 

(b) I have been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of, and to receive
answers from, the Company and its representatives concerning the shares issued
to me upon exercise of said option and to obtain any additional information I
have deemed necessary.

 

(c) I have a high degree of familiarity with the business, operations, financial
condition and prospects of the Company.

 

Very truly yours,

/s/    Samuel Humphries

 

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ANNEX I

 

The following are “accredited investors” for purposes of the offering and sale
of Shares.

 

Please check all of the following categories that you fulfill.

 

a.    a bank as defined in section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act or a savings
and loan association or other institution as defined in section 3(a)(5)(A) of
the Securities Act, whether acting in its individual or fiduciary capacity;
broker or dealer registered pursuant to section 15 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended; insurance company as defined in section 2(13) of the
Securities Act; investment company registered under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended, or a business development company as defined in section
2(a)(48) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; Small Business
Investment Company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under
section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958; plan
established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency
or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of
its employees, if such plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000; employee
benefit plan within the meaning of the Optionee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended, if the investment decision is made by a plan fiduciary, as
defined in section 3(21) of such act, which plan fiduciary is either a bank,
savings and loan association, insurance company, or registered investment
adviser, or if the employee benefit plan has total assets in excess of
$5,000,000 or, if a self-directed plan, with investment decisions made solely by
persons that are accredited investors; b.    a private business development
company as defined in section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,
as amended; c.    an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), a corporation, Massachusetts or
similar business trust, or a partnership, not formed for the purpose of quiring
the Securities offered, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000; d.    X    
   director or an executive officer of Universal Hospital Services, Inc.;
e.    X        a natural person whose individual net worth, individually or
together with his or her spouse, exceeds $1,000,000;

 

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f.    X       

(i)a natural person who had an individual income* in excess of $200,000 in both
of the past two years and who reasonably expects reaching the same income level
in the current year; or

(ii) a natural person who had a joint income* with his or her spouse in excess
of $300,000 in both of the past two years and who reasonably expects reaching
the same income level in the current year;

g.    a trust, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000, not formed for the
specific purpose of acquiring the Securities offered, whose purchase is directed
by a person who either alone or with his purchaser representative has such
knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that he or she is
capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment, or
Universal Hospital Services, Inc. reasonably believes immediately prior to
making any sale that such person comes within this definition; h.    an entity
in which all of the equity owners are accredited investors meeting one or more
of the tests under subparagraphs (a)-(g)

 

* For all investors, the term “individual income” means adjusted gross income as
reported for federal income tax purposes, less any income attributable to a
spouse or to property owned by a spouse, increased by the following amounts (but
not included any amounts attributable to a spouse or to property owned by a
spouse), and the term “joint income” means adjusted gross income as reported for
federal income tax purposes, including any income attributable to a spouse or to
a property owned by a spouse, increased by the following amounts (including any
amounts attributable to a spouse or to property owned by a spouse): (i) the
amount of any interest income received which is tax exempt under section 103 of
the Code; (ii) the amount of losses claimed as a limited partner in a limited
partnership (as reported on Schedule E of Form 1040); and (iii) any deduction
claimed for depletion under section 611 et seq. of the Code.