Sentences with phrase «multi-billion dollar settlement»

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.

Meanwhile, the Republican candidate for governor, Rob Astorino, who is also the Westchester County executive, says the state should use part of a recently announced multi-billion dollar settlement with a French bank to help pay for the bridge, and other infrastructure needs.

This year, shareholders will have an opportunity to weigh in on the eventual changes amidst a backdrop of continued multi-billion dollar settlements for allegations of misconduct regarding a litany of issues (including the «London Whale» trading fiasco, evidence of collusion to rig CDS and foreign exchange markets, and continued mortgage - backed security litigation), along with the Fed and FDIC's decision to label the Company's «living will» proposal as «not credible.»

Madsen knows exactly what Dani has and how explosive it is for the pharmaceutical industry: it has the potential to make the tobacco industry's lawsuits and subsequent multi-billion dollar settlements seem like routine slip - and - fall cases.

Not exact matches

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.

Others note that the multi-billion dollar bank settlements that bolstered the state budget for the last several years have slowed, meaning the flow of money to help put out financial brush fires is now a trickle.

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.

Over the last few years, a new opportunity has evolved, called a life settlement and has created a multi-billion dollar industry known as the life insurance «secondary market».

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.