Sentences with phrase «settlements in civil lawsuits»

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The settlements rank as the largest known recovery from Moody's and S&P in a private lawsuit for civil damages, Calpers said.

«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.

The settlement resolves a wrongful - death lawsuit filed against the county in 2014 and a federal civil rights suit filed last year against Nassau.

Steve Rattner is fighting back against the civil lawsuits filed against him by AG / Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo, which just so happen to come on the same day the SEC announced a $ 6.2 million settlement with the financier and GM, which Rattner helped save, debuted in the largest initial public offering in US history.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

Over the years, Silver arranged payments of $ 1.2 million, nearly all of it in taxpayer money, for hush - hush civil - lawsuit settlements to six female ex - government staffers who suffered sexual harassment — or worse — at the hands of Silver's cronies.

Five full months into the new fiscal year, Lembo is estimating that the state will be spending more money in the settlement of a civil lawsuit by the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition against former Gov. John G. Rowland, who laid off state employees more than a decade ago.

And the Los Angeles Unified School District recently agreed to limit the use of seniority in layoff determinations as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

ALDF filed a civil lawsuit resulting in a settlement that prohibited Conyers from ever owning another animal.

An example of his exemplary pro bono service is the favorable monetary settlement Bob achieved on behalf of a prisoner in a Section 1983 federal lawsuit he prosecuted against the Cook County Department of Corrections involving civil rights violations for refusal to provide medical treatment.

Although the pressures to settle are also present in American jurisdictions, our lower damages quantum, a distinct costs regimes (i.e. the English Rule), and legal reforms pressuring settlements means that Canadian civil lawsuits are far less likely to proceed to trial and produce a written judgment than American civil lawsuits are.

As reported in yesterday's New York Times, the soon - to - be-released study of civil lawsuits found that most plaintiffs who pass up settlement and go to trial end up with less than if they'd settled.

If your attorney is unable to reach a fair and reasonable settlement with the auto insurance company, the next step is to file a lawsuit in a civil court.

That's because for the vast majority of these civil lawsuits, the settlements and verdicts result in far more reasonable amounts.

In 2002, Gray was finally pardoned by Governor George Ryan and received $ 120,300 in wrongful conviction compensation from Illinois, and in 2008 $ 4 million from the Cook County Board civil lawsuit settlemenIn 2002, Gray was finally pardoned by Governor George Ryan and received $ 120,300 in wrongful conviction compensation from Illinois, and in 2008 $ 4 million from the Cook County Board civil lawsuit settlemenin wrongful conviction compensation from Illinois, and in 2008 $ 4 million from the Cook County Board civil lawsuit settlemenin 2008 $ 4 million from the Cook County Board civil lawsuit settlement.

Settlements reached using ODR are nothing more than transactions, i.e.: «contracts by which the parties prevent a future contestation, put an end to a lawsuit or settle difficulties arising in the execution of a judgment, by way of mutual concessions or reservations» (as defined in section 2631 of the Quebec Civil Code), and they are deferred to and enforced by the Courts on a regular basis.