Ameris Bank secured an arbitration victory in a dispute with a former executive seeking millions of dollars under a termination agreement after he was fired when several fraudulent loans cropped up in a portfolio owned by a company he sold to Ameris. 

William Villari, the founder and former CEO of U.S. Premium Holding Co., said he was owed $15 million as part of a termination agreement he signed with Ameris, according to Ameris’ lawyers at Covington & Burling.