Sentences with phrase «dollar settlement against»

In 1994, at the request of Governor Lawton Chiles, Loehr authored amendments to the Medicaid Recovery Act which paved the way for Florida's landmark lawsuit and multi-billion dollar settlement against the cigarette industry.

A man who spent 17 years wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his own parents has won a $ 3.3 million dollar settlement against the State of New York.

Our patent litigators have racked up trial wins and multi-million dollar settlements against the likes of Apple, ASUS, Samsung, LG, Microsoft, Hyundai, Riverbed, Toshiba, Philips, American Express, Stryker, and Medtronic.

We have recovered multi million dollar settlements against cities, municipalities, townships and private property owners alike.

Not exact matches

It's likely, however, that Buffett would have disagreed with Fox's efforts to reportedly sweep the allegations under the rug, silencing women who leveled accusations against O'Reilly as well as former Fox chairman Roger Ailes with settlement payments that ran in the millions of dollars.

Over three - plus decades, Rozenholc has won millions of dollars in settlements and gone up against some of the city's biggest -LSB-...]... [more]

On May 2, 2014, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York gave preliminary approval to a settlement of $ 280 million to resolve claims against JPMC that it misled investors in billions of dollars» worth of mortgage backed securities.

On March 27, 2014, JPMC and the bankruptcy trustee for Peregrine Financial Group, Inc. agreed to a $ 15 million settlement of claims against JPMC alleging JPMC allowed fraud to occur at Peregrine, which was bankrupted after its founder looted hundreds of millions of dollars from customer accounts.

Since 2001, the LVPD and LVMPD has had to pay out $ 7.303 million dollars in settlements, restitution, and fines because of activities in their departments, 2 officers have been arrested, and they've had 5 lawsuits brought against them.

Eliot Spitzer and current executive director of the nonprofit Union Settlement, says prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims brought against government employees, as Cuomo has proposed, is probably illegal and also bad policy.

Cuomo wants to pit seven Upstate regions against one another for $ 1.5 billion in one - time state aid made possible by multibillion - dollar bank settlements.

The practice of using taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims lodged against public officials was upheld in 2008 after a taxpayer filed suit in State Supreme Court to challenge a $ 500,000 settlement paid to woman who accused Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's then - counsel, Michael Boxley, of rape.

«By this time, there was already an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID) investigation and claims against the FGN running into billions of dollars.

Served as key member of the legal team representing the State of New Jersey against the tobacco industry and helped achieve the largest settlement in the history of New Jersey, totaling $ 7.6 billion dollars;

Representation of a retail client in a negotiation settlement involving a multi-million dollar breach of contract / bad faith case against an insurer.

Represented UConn and achieved a favorable settlement of millions of dollars against the design and construction teams in connection with design and construction defects on the South Campus dormitory complex.

Representation of a mechanical contractor in the prosecution of multimillion - dollar delay and inefficiency claims against a New Jersey school district and its designers, defeating «No Damages for Delay» provision asserted by way of summary judgment and obtaining favorable settlement for client following three days of mediation.

We mediated an agreeable settlement in the amount of $ 245,000 for Brad, plus they waived all rights to his personal injury claim against the driver who hit him — which was another million dollars.

Won default termination case against the District of Columbia and obtained a multi-million dollar settlement on a wastewater treatment project.

Won partial summary judgment against an architect / engineer in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on a $ 185 million condominium project leading to a multi-million dollar settlement.

One common strategy is to sue everybody, then to settle with a minor player early on for a fairly low dollar amount compared to risk at trial and to use that settlement to help finance the rest of the litigation against the primary person at fault in the case.

As defense counsel, we have helped our clients avoid billions of dollars in exposure through dispositive motion practice, favorable settlements and verdicts, and by convincing federal and state regulators to drop charges against our clients.

Relax while your lawyer goes to bat for you against the insurance company, fighting for every dollar you deserve in your settlement.

Our advocacy has allowed clients to obtain justice against major companies, resulting in over one billion dollars in settlements and verdicts.

Barclays has faced intense public scrutiny in recent years: from the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into the bank's # 12bn fundraising at the height of the financial crisis, which resulted in criminal charges against the bank and former executives relating to a # 2.3 bn loan Barclays provided to Qatar, a multibillion - dollar legal battle with the US Department of Justice over allegedly - fraudulent mortgages and a New York currency trading probe that ended in a $ 150m settlement.

Allen's representative work includes the successful defense of a multi-million dollar insurance coverage and rescission suit by Lloyd's of London; dismissal of a six - figure claim for retroactive premiums against the St. John Community Development Center; summary judgments (affirmed on appeal) against Essex Insurance Company and Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company for breach of their respective insurance contracts; trial verdicts against Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Company and Liberty Mutual for insurance bad faith; and numerous confidential five, six, and seven figure settlements reached in insurance disputes of all types (including residential and commercial property, commercial general liability, auto liability, errors and omissions, negligent procurement, and insurer bad faith).

Not surprisingly, the three longest decisions of the year were in complex commercial cases, one involving alleged inducement to make a multi-million dollar loan (VTB Capital plc v Nutritek [2013] UKSC 5), another on how to calculate the value of unjustly received services (Benedetti v Sawiris [2013] UKSC 50), and the third relating to the settlement of a claim brought by shipowners against insurers (The Alexandros T [2013] UKSC 70).

Litigated case against municipalities and public agencies for their role at a Superfund site in Los Angeles County, resulting in tens of million dollars in settlements

It may be a good idea for you to purchase more than the minimum liability coverage because a claim against you can quickly reach hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement costs, court fees and legal defense fees.

«After filing the suit against us for damages, they called to discuss a settlement payment for «only» tens of thousands of dollars» David says.

The Winklevoss twins became well known for their lawsuit against Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, in which they received a $ 65 million dollar settlement.

In fact in past postings that I made on this forum, I strongly disagreed with TREB's out of court settlement it made with RealtySellers and more recently I suggested that TREB should commence a multi-billion dollar law suit against the same people that are now bombarding them with a series of further unjustified multi-million dollar legal actions.