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(Everyone doesn't accept settlements from such publications, either).
More important is that the warning this meeting sent to other companies that want to accept settlements in which criminal charges are waived.
The idea of the spill fund is similar to that of the Sept. 11 fund: persuade people to accept settlements up front, rather than wait years for results of potentially costly litigation.
But if people in the gulf accept settlements and waive the right to sue, and the long-term effects of the spill prove to be much worse than anticipated, they could find themselves in trouble down the road.
The snarl at the tribunal has intensified so much that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has been casting about for ways to speed the process, including adding hearing rooms and encouraging restaurants to accept settlements in place of hearings.
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West Virginia and Montana accepted settlements earlier this year.
Others said their lawyers had bullied them into accepting settlements with Blackwater, and hoped Mr. Dabbagh and the Iraqi government could help them reopen their suits.
He added his firm would start to contact clients who had accepted settlements from the claims fund to "tell them of their rights".
Too often, the government has accepted settlements with fines that are too small compared with the harm done and allowed the defendants to neither admit nor deny the charges.
Others who had accepted settlements in earlier cases attempted to try and sign up again, he said.
Both later accepted settlements when litigation was threatened.
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