The phrase "a settlement from a" is grammatically correct but incomplete and may not convey a clear meaning without additional context.
You can use it when discussing a settlement that originates from a specific source or party, but you will need to specify what that source is for clarity.
Example: "The company reached a settlement from a major supplier regarding the contract dispute."
Alternatives: "an agreement from a" or "a resolution from a".
Or does the pain and suffering that the transaction involves make it more like a settlement from a personal-injury lawsuit?
But even if people in foreclosure never win a settlement from a bank, they could stay a few more months in their homes by filing a lawsuit.
Back in 1996 a man named Phil Quick won a settlement from a muffler production plant in Grinnell, Iowa, where bagging was a popular practice.
Google also faces lawsuits from aggressive collectors of patents like NTP Inc., which are derisively called patent trolls and sue in the hope of forcing a settlement from a large company but generally do not build products themselves.
"Everybody supports it, everybody knows it's the right thing to do, but who would stand up and be counted?" When police officers and firefighters hit a wall in contract talks, they have a right unique among the state's public employees: to seek a settlement from a state-appointed arbitrator.
At issue is a settlement from a previous suit filed by Sally DeLorean against DMC in 2015, in which the intellectual property rights to the car's image, as well as John's image and name, were disputed.
"We realize that the decision making process has taken longer than anticipated," said Karen Lynn, a company spokeswoman, who added that ConAgra had not received a settlement from an insurance claim on the fire, which the authorities said was caused by spontaneous combustion.
Watch out for scams, like: an agency cold calls you and claims it has buyers waiting in the wings; or someone claims you're entitled to a settlement from an FTC lawsuit brought against a scammer.
Last month, the office of the United States attorney for Los Angeles dropped its investigation of Mr. Mozilo after the S.E.C. extracted a settlement from him in a civil fraud case.
Two years after his termination, and following unsuccessful attempts to obtain a settlement from Mr. Herold, Mr. Keller filed a lawsuit against West Coast and three of its employees.
The Courier News agreed, and called Christie "a disaster on the environment" for taking a settlement from $225m ExxonMobil over a pollution case.
