On the legal and regulatory front, Unum reached a multistate regulatory settlement agreement on its claims practices in 2004 and agreed to reassess thousands of denied disability claims.
This new agreement, made public Friday afternoon, amounts to a full and final settlement of all claims against RIM, as well as a perpetual, fully-paid up license for the disputed patents.
The oil firm has not agreed with the Justice Department on a separate civil settlement involving federal and state claims of damages to natural resources.
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"Although we have strong defenses to all claims, a settlement avoids years of litigation and uncertainties that are inherent in such cases, " said Noah Hanft, MasterCard's general counsel, in a statement.
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The plaintiffs and BP "believe that the settlement agreements are a fair, reasonable and adequate resolution of the claims, " the company said.
The size and scope of the problem is now well known and it seems straightforward to sign on to a final settlement that wraps up most of the claims, helps some genuinely needy borrowers, and protects lenders from still additional liability arising out of the same conduct.
It came despite aggressive statements made by Balsillie last week: he repeatedly denounced NTP's patent claims and accused the company of being disingenuous in its settlement offers.
Pursuant to U.S. GAAP, a portion of the proceeds will be accounted for and attributed to the settlement of prior legal claims.
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The settlement resolves all claims by Mr. Picard against the Mets owners and their business partners, including any amount they would have paid under a prior court ruling that they must return "fictitious profits" withdrawn in the two years before Mr. Madoff's fraud collapsed.
Reaching a final settlement with the Osage Tribe on its trust accounting and trust mismanagement claims has been a priority for the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior.
Feder says the rules were drawn up in a time when judges and legal scholars didn't think lawyers would file baseless claims just to wangle a settlement.
And Arab diplomatic inflexibility has given Israel time to enhance through Jewish settlement its claims for retention of strategically valuable territories it acquired in the 1967 war.
In its filing, the U.S. Government made clear that it does not oppose the settlement reached by BP and the PSC resolving economic loss and property damage claims stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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The financing will be used to repay all claims under the debtor-in-possession post-petition credit facility, pay certain settlement and cure payments and fund ongoing operations.
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The other settlement, with all ten banks participating, resolved claims of foreclosure abuses that included flawed paperwork and bungled loan modifications.
The Justice Department has reached a separate settlement with rig owner Transocean Ltd. that resolves the government's civil and criminal claims over the Swiss-based company's role in the disaster.
Two reports by the state ethics board and a special prosecutor criticized Silver for the settlement, which they said violated Assembly policy for handling such claims.
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