Sentences with phrase «of negotiating a settlement of»

The insurance adjuster is not entitled to take advantage of an insured persons» financial vulnerability as part of negotiating a settlement of the claim or to unreasonably withhold benefits that an insured person is clearly entitled to.

The authors flag issues for defending counsel like preliminary considerations, the definition of «joint family venture», the fact that the law surrounding unjust enrichment is subject to judicial discretion and the efficacy of negotiating settlement of these claims.

A common mistake accident victims will make is to assume that they are capable of negotiating the settlement of their accident claim «on their own,» without the need to involve an attorney or any other form of outside advice.

The process of agreeing to arbitrate a case is similar to the process of negotiating a settlement of a dispute, the court explained in its opinion.

Not exact matches

Perkins also recounted the «heavy emotional toll» of negotiating the settlement and the NDA.

None of that augers well for a negotiated settlement.

For decades, he has negotiated and determined the size of settlement payouts for victims of such tragedies as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

Exactly what went wrong remains a matter of dispute, but Reynolds sued the test facility and negotiated a settlement he says he is «very happy» with.

The company declined to comment on the timing of the lawsuits, whether it planned to sue additional companies, or if it had reached any negotiated settlements.

He put license compliance in place, negotiated settlements with states, and released a new version of the core product.

«They'll publish a Federal Register notice of tariffs on certain products, then try to reach a negotiated settlement over the next 60 days.»

Aside from negotiating the size of a financial fine, the people said, the talks are centered on which investigations and pending lawsuits to sweep into the potentially wide - ranging 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.

With the current political discourse of anti tax and now the blowing winds of austerity, I really really really do not see a negotiated settlement towards balanced budgets unless somebody makes some dramatic changes.

«As part of the settlement, retailers negotiated the ability to charge their customers a checkout fee (merchant surcharge) at the register.

Total compensation per employee consists of many different elements, including not only negotiated / imposed wage settlements, bracket creep (employees moving up within their pay range), composition of employment (professional vs clerical), pay equity, pension and other future employee benefit costs driven in part by market conditions, Canada and Quebec Pension Plan contributions (which increase by the annual increase in the industrial wage), among others.

Fortunately, we were able to hire a lawyer who was able to negotiate a settlement — we ended up paying $ 3,000 instead of the original $ 8,000 in copyright infringement penalties Mr. Leech was originally seeking.

The only real glimmer of hope I can see on the horizon is the brewing «settlement» of all the mortgage fraud cases now being «negotiated» by the Justice Dept, the Bank regulators and the State Attorney Generals.

He has served on task forces of state securities regulators to negotiate multistate settlements in cases involving Lloyd's of London, Salomon Brothers, and Drexel Burnham Lambert Group.

When the auditors got wind of the Settlement Agreements with the MSMB investors, Shkreli had been in the midst of negotiating a settlement with another defrauded MSMB Capital investor, SchuylerSettlement Agreements with the MSMB investors, Shkreli had been in the midst of negotiating a settlement with another defrauded MSMB Capital investor, Schuylersettlement with another defrauded MSMB Capital investor, Schuyler Marshall.

The option of the seller in an interest rate futures contract to take when negotiating the settlement of an obligation.

The changes grew out of two efforts by states to aid consumers: a 2015 settlement negotiated by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the three credit reporting agencies and an agreement shortly afterward between the agencies and 31 state attorneys general.

IRD's Note: In the past year, there has been a noticeably substantial increase in the use of the obscurely defined EFPs (Exchange for Physicals) and PNTs (Privately Negotiated Transactions) in the settlement of Comex gold and silver futures contracts.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

The reviewer can find nothing in the book to quote that would support her charge that Wisse wants to «brand» Jews who believe in a negotiated settlement as «perpetuators of a ghetto appeasement mentality.»

She concluded, «It is hard to escape the suspicion that the real point of this essay is to brand any Jews (and non-Jews, for that matter) who still believe in the possibility of a negotiated settlement in the Middle East as perpetuators of a ghetto appeasement mentality.»

At Eisleben, or on the journey to his parents, he realised that the whole situation was out of control, not least because his own ruler, the dying Elector had refrained from using military force, hoping for a negotiated settlement.

There's no way Engler (in place of the MSU legal team) is negotiating a settlement.

Village officials said they recently began negotiating new labor agreements with the Firefighter / Paramedic Association as well as the Metropolitan Alliance of Police and may have to make modifications later this year depending on contract settlements.

But Local 46 officials said real progress toward a settlement didn't occur until more than 90 percent of union members voted June 26 to authorize the negotiating committee to set a strike date.

The commission will now work with the mother, Emily Gillette of Santa Fe, and Freedom to try to negotiate a settlement in the 2006 dispute.

The really tricky bit will be negotiating settlements with the minorities, protecting the environment and worker's interests in the face of western corporate power and nurturing a democratic political ethos.

New York City's finances are being responsibly managed despite the large cost of negotiating labor settlements with city workers, according to members of the state Financial Control Board.

Over the past week, things have gone downhill quickly for both Lopez, who announced he won't be seeking re-election as Brooklyn Democratic chairman, but has refused to heed calls to resign his Assembly seat; and Silver, who was revealed to have negotiated a secret settlement of $ 103,000 worth of taxpayer cash with two women whose harassment claims against Lopez pre-dated those sent to the ethics committee.

In other words, it sometimes seems like the governor would prefer a negotiated settlement on redistricting than an all - out war with the Legislature, which, particularly if the DOJ doesn't grant the state a waiver and requires the 2012 primaries to be moved from September into the summer (the Assembly Democrats are angling for June, the Senate Republicans for August), could come smack in the middle of budget negotiations.

When David Cameron made the commitment in January 2013 first to negotiate a «new settlement» for Britain in the EU and then to put this settlement to a public vote by 2017, the main rationale was the short - term domestic expediency of such a move.

We support a negotiated settlement leading to a safe and secure Israel living alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state; based on 1967 borders with agreed land swaps, Jerusalem as the shared capital of both states, and a just, fair and agreed settlement for refugees.

In the wake of Mansour's death, these leaders are more likely to begin planning their revenge rather than negotiating a peace settlement.

The Oslo Accords were intended to establish only an interim government until a final settlement could be negotiated, but as the Israelis and Palestinians have, as of yet, failed to reach an agreement, the Area divisions in the West Bank still stand (though, as mentioned previously, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005).

«We have long detected the dead hand of the Government interfering to stop us reaching negotiated settlements in the current disputes and it's about time Chris Grayling stopped playing politics with passenger safety and started taking the issue seriously.

External actors do not directly bear the costs of the war and negotiated settlements in these wars often do not directly address the goals of external parties.

Instead, Syracuse officials negotiated a legal settlement of their tax dispute with Jacobowitz, removing the threat of foreclosure and paving the way for Jacobowitz to pursue his own renovation of the property.

Israel is currently in control of Area C of the West Bank, as per the Oslo Accords negotiated between Israel and Palestine, and feels that Area C belongs to it until it should choose to withdraw from Area C as the result of a final settlement.

While their criticisms are harsh, neither author appears to offer any answers, apart from suggesting the inevitability of coalition withdrawal, the need to negotiate with the Taliban and the need to persuade regional powers to underwrite any settlement.

The settlement was negotiated by the state, Lopez's attorney and Gloria Allred, a prominent Los Angeles attorney who is often representing high profile victims of sex crimes.

BLB&G is one of the largest law firms in securities litigation, and recently negotiated a $ 730 million settlement out of Citigroup, for which they requested $ 146 million in fees.

But in a move which has sparked fury among senior party figures, the leader wrote to his MPs saying: «In my view, the PM has been unable to explain the contribution of additional UK bombing to a comprehensive negotiated political settlement of the Syrian civil war, or its likely impact on the threat of terrorist attacks in the UK.

Betty Mould - Iddrisu, and the Presidency to get the Minister of Finance to negotiate with Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome and his lawyers to agree on a settlement amount of Gh cents 51.2 million, which was eventually paid in three (3) tranches; the first one paid by Mad.

«Shadow Cabinet members agreed to call David Cameron to account on the unanswered questions raised by his case for bombing: including how it would accelerate a negotiated settlement of the Syrian civil war; what ground troops would take territory evacuated by ISIS; military co-ordination and strategy; the refugee crisis and the imperative to cut - off of supplies to ISIS.»

The Commission subpoenaed the Central Bank (BoG) to testify on the payments so far made to CP, as a result of the negotiated settlement.