Sentences with phrase «dollar settlements from»

Ideally, your injury attorney will have years of experience representing accident victims and getting high - dollar settlements from trucking companies.

Schneiderman, who once represented financial firms in private practice, has used the Martin Act to pursue his «Insider Trading 2.0» initiative, obtaining multimillion - dollar settlements from financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, BlackRock, and Barclays, as well as settlements with banks such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs over deceptive practices leading up to the financial crisis.

Silver persuaded a physician to refer asbestos cancer patients to his law firm so it could seek multimillion - dollar settlements from personal injury lawsuits, a secret arrangement that allowed him to collect about $ 3 million in referral fees, Williams said.

C. Tab Turner obtained a multi-million dollar settlement from Ford Motor Company and Bridgestone / Firestone in a high profile personal injury suit in Texas involving a horrific rollover accident in a Ford Explorer that occurred when the tread on a Firestone tire blew apart.

Not exact matches

The strong dollar was felt widely across commodity markets and the emerging economies that are now borrowing record amounts of debt in the U.S. currency — $ 3.7 trillion according to the latest figures this week from the Bank for International Settlements.

In 2013, J.P. Morgan & Co. had just been ordered to pay a multibillion - dollar settlement stemming from the financial crisis, and it was seeking to reconnect with consumers via a Twitter Q&A.

The billionaire entrepreneur also questioned whether it was advisable for federal officials to deprive the bank of billions of dollars in a proposed settlement, which would effectively siphon money away from shareholders.

«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Someone has to benefit from the tide of lawsuits coming at opioid manufacturers — particularly if drugmakers pay out a multibillion - dollar settlement.

JPMorgan Chase, seeking to avert a wave of litigation from the government, is negotiating a multibillion - dollar settlement with state and federal agencies over the bank's sale of troubled mortgage securities to investors in the run - up to the financial crisis.

Banks have poured millions of dollars to develop blockchain, the software first created to run cryptocurrency bitcoin, to streamline processes ranging from cross-border payments to securities settlement.

With BitPay, APMEX will receive daily US dollar bank settlements for the bitcoin payments they receive, with zero risk from bitcoin price volatility.

Cutting settlement times from hours and days to just three seconds or less will remove billions of dollars in unnecessary intermediary fees,» said Alastair Constance, CEO and founder of Mercury FX.

However, if the ordinary shares or ADSs are treated as traded on an «established securities market» and you are either a cash basis taxpayer or an accrual basis taxpayer that has made a special election (which must be applied consistently from year to year and can not be changed without the consent of the IRS), you will determine the U.S. dollar value of the amount realized in a non U.S. dollar currency by translating the amount received at the spot rate of exchange on the settlement date of the sale.

The actual amount transferred may differ from the agreed - upon dollar amount of the transaction as a result of: the allowable delivery variance of + / - 0.01 %, in accordance with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Good Delivery Guidelines for To - Be-Announced (TBA) trading of agency MBS; periodic net settlement of purchases and sales; principal paydowns; and accrued interest.

Cutting settlement times from hours and days to just three seconds or less will remove billions of dollars in unnecessary intermediary fees.»

The U.S. is reportedly considering tariffs on an extra $ 100 billion dollars of imports from China, while China has referred the U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs to the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement body.

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.

Congressional Democrats began giving away some of the thousands of dollars in campaign contributions they had received from Weinstein, moving to distance themselves from him after revelations he had reached at least eight settlements with women accusing him of sexual harassment.

The newly reformed settlement does offer banks some protection from future lawsuits, and some critics have noted that the payments to individual homeowners will be no more than a few thousand dollars.

He has long criticized the Cuomo administration for various aspects of the project, and recently penned an OpEd saying the billions of dollars the state has reaped from financial services settlements with BNP Paribas and others should be used to pay for the new bridge and other infrastructure projects.

Lawmakers also agreed to divide up the $ 5 billion dollar windfall surplus from bank settlements, with $ 1.5 billion going to upstate economic development and $ 500m to improve broadband Internet access.

As the Citizens Budget Commission points out, Cuomo continues to have billions of dollars to spend from bank settlements with the state.

Astorino says he'd use money from the state's $ 5 billion dollars windfall surplus from Wall Street settlements to offset tolls.

To raise revenues, Cuomo proposed requiring extending sales tax collections on online sales, imposing a surcharge on certain health insurers who received a windfall from federal tax cuts, tapping hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from lawsuit settlements and raising taxes «e-cigarettes» and taxing opioids (2 cents per milligram prescribed to go to anti-addiction programs).

The governor said there is funding for the big - dollar projects from a state settlement with major banks.

The Syracuse Regional Airport Authority will be reimbursing the city three million dollars in a settlement with the Syracuse Police Benevolent Association for lost wages from 2012 - 2014.

But Republicans in the state Senate continue to be opposed to a program that uses either taxpayer dollars or even settlement money from lawsuits.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo reintroduced a plan to provide college courses to prison inmates, this time paying for the program with private funds and some $ 7.5 million in criminal forfeiture cash from the Manhattan DA, Cyrus Vance, whose coffers are filled with hundreds of millions of dollars in bank settlements.

Senator Skelos says another big item that's likely off the table - how to spend a more than $ 5 billion dollar windfall surplus from several bank settlements.

New York State has received a multi-billion dollar windfall from bank settlements this year, but a new report from the State Comptroller shows the settlement took a bite out of Wall Street profits in 2014, which could have repercussions for the state budget in the future.

Senate Republicans are considering ways to strip Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's power to control hundreds of millions of dollars the state is getting from a national housing settlement with JPMorgan Chase, a source said.

The money stems from a multibillion dollar settlement with Morgan Stanley.

New York state has received a multi billion dollar windfall from bank settlements this year, but a new report from the state comptroller shows the settlement took a bite out of Wall Street profits in 2014, which could have repercussions for the state budget in the future.

The report from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli does highlight a vastly improved financial picture for the state in recent years, though «the state may face increasing budgetary challenges in coming years as revenue growth is expected to slow and billions of dollars in settlement money are spent.»

The settlements from Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCooper and other financial institutions have netted the state $ 5.1 billion dollars in settlements over alleged misconduct during the 2008 Wall Street melt down.

They say it doesn't make sense to freeze Thruway tolls for four years, using money from the multi-billion dollar bank settlements, as Cuomo has proposed.

After her lawyers obtained documents from the drilling company, EnCana, showing that the suspected chemical was used in nearby wells, Amos accepted a multimillion - dollar settlement.

She promises Tyler a million dollars for his trouble, from the presumed sure - thing settlement which would ensue.

That the provisions of the settlement agreement dated January 30, 2013, between the United States of America, acting through the United States Department of Justice and on behalf of the United States Department of Education, and the State of Connecticut, acting through the office of the Attorney General and on behalf of the Connecticut State Department of Education, requiring an expenditure from the General Fund budget in excess of two million five hundred thousand dollars and submitted by the Attorney General to this Assembly for approval in accordance with section 3 - 125a of the general statutes, are approved

Before Amazon emerged, there were six major publishing houses, each with several imprints; Amazon indirectly had a significant impact on their finances through the ebook price fixing investigation that resulted in settlements in the hundreds of millions of dollars from the publishers alone.

With the earlier settlements from the five publishers involved, one of the resounding statements they repeatedly made when signing to agree to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers for allegedly overcharging them for ebooks was that they were not at fault and did not admit any wrongdoing.

In all cases, once the creditor agrees to the reduced amount (settlement amount) and confirms this in writing - the funds will get paid directly to the debt collection company from the client's savings account, and the balance will reflect as «zero dollars owed.»

The dollar difference from the previous day's settlement price to today's settlement price determines the profit or loss.

If you agree to the terms and accept this agreement, certified funds for the settlement amount of one hundred dollars ($ 100.00) will be sent to Collection Agency in exchange for full deletion of all references regarding this account from my credit files and full satisfaction of the debt.

In all cases, once the creditor agrees to the reduced amount (settlement amount) and confirms this in writing — the funds will get paid directly to the debt collection company from the client's savings account, and the balance will reflect as «zero dollars owed.»

The settlement we wrote about earlier consists of two million dollars going from Bethesda parent Zenimax to Interplay, a move through which Bethesda gains all rights related to Fallout Online.

In breaking news, tobacco companies last year celebrated the end of a decade long, multi-million dollar jihad pursued by politicized Justice Department attorneys who were not satisfied with simply extorting billions of dollars in taxes disguised as a settlement from the defendants.

The government that refused to criminalize cigarettes (because a populace fully aware of the dangers of smoking for at least the last four decades still wants to buy them), pursued the injunction while happily cashing the billion dollar checks they have been collecting from the sale of cigarettes since the global tobacco settlement.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa437.pdf The settlement of the tobacco litigation, in November 1998, was a legal and public policy debacle of truly historic proportions.5 The tobacco companies agreed to abide by a new set of regulatory constraints and to make multibillion - dollar payments annually to the states (and the trial lawyers from private practice who were hired to represent most of them) in perpetuity.