The McDonald's Corporation agreed to pay Simon Worldwide Inc. $16.6 million to settle a lawsuit over promotional games. McDonald's will pay Simon $6.9 million and also assign it the rights to insurance proceeds, which are expected to be about $9.7 million, Simon said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The two companies ended their relationship in 2001 after the arrest of a former Simon employee, who pleaded guilty to taking winning game pieces. Simon and McDonald's sued each other in October 2001 for breach of contract. In September 2001, a federal judge threw out McDonald's claims that Simon broke a contract with McDonald's.