Becker, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States for the term expiring September 30, 2013, vice Ralph E.
News Corp. didn't affirm or deny these claims during settlement negotiations with claimants, according to a lawyer for plaintiffs, but in December the company agreed to calculate compensation under the assumption that such actions occurred.
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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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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.
If they really wanted to do something to pacify the former prisoners, it would be open to both governments but not to their respective monarchs to renegotiate the miserly settlement of claims reached by their predecessors in the 1950s.
That settlement stemmed from claims by Securities America investors who say they were sold shoddy private placements deals related to Medical Capital and Provident Shale Royalties.
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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.
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.
In such cases, plaintiff lawyers typically swamp a company with claims, then negotiate a settlement that steers most of the bankruptcy proceeds to themselves at the expense of other creditors, including future asbestos victims.
Since they face the same lawyers over and over, both sides have worked out a simple bargain: In exchange for fees, the plaintiff lawyers sell absolution in the form of a blanket settlement of their 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including any amount they would have paid under a prior court ruling that they must return "fictitious profits" withdrawn in the two years before Mr.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.
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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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.
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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Citi denied the claims, but said it agreed to the settlement to "eliminate uncertainties".
Peters took her case to small claims after opting out of a class action settlement.
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But with an expert supporting their claims, plaintiffs can often extract a lucrative settlement simply by surviving defense motions to dismiss.
He cites a 1998 Texas Supreme Court ruling that held a settlement is valid despite later fraud claims, as long as the parties say they are acting on their own and not relying on anything the other side said or did.
Lest anyone think this is just a trumped-up government charge, Citi's settlement came with an admission that the claims against it were true.
After my conversation with Mr de la Mora I was reassured of the company's good intent, but still not convinced that the proposed settlement will deliver the many benefits Google claims it offers.
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.
Insurance companies might be choosing to cooperate with settlement mills, in part because settlement mills appear willing to settle the largest claims which present the highest chance of a catastrophic verdict at an attractive discount.
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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 claims against DTCC have to do with its role in the trade settlement process.
The settlement deals with so-called mortgage put-back claims that investors believe Bank of America must make good on because Countrywide breached contract provisions regarding the quality and type of loans that backed the securities.
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It's entirely possible that the severity of the side effects for Redux, the Wyeth drug, have been overblown as a result of a legal settlement that acted like a honey pot, causing false claims to spring out of the woodwork.
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.
Owens Corning sued testing labs and at least one lawyer in 1996, but ultimately entered a confidential settlement as part of a larger agreement to pay off asbestos claims.
Ex-miners' union president Arthur Scargill has reached an out-of-court settlement with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) over expense claims.
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