Sentence examples for blanket settlements from inspiring English sources

The fear is that blanket settlements such as this encourage opportunistic claims.

A blanket settlement - with some of the money to be paid out over more than a decade - also helps the league by reducing risk of a large jury award.

The success of Merck 's strategy — fighting every claim against it in court for several years and only then agreeing to a blanket settlement — could encourage other pharmaceutical companies to take the same route in other lawsuits, independent legal experts say.

It was never easy, and there was no blanket settlement.

In place of the reviews, the mortgage industry pledged to pay $9.6 billion in a blanket settlement.

A group of state attorneys general is trying to craft a blanket settlement with several large financial institutions following allegations that these banks filed false and "robo-signed" affidavits in foreclosure proceedings.

Earlier this year, most of the other participants, including giants Bank of America and Wells Fargo, agreed to scrap the reviews in exchange for a blanket settlement meant to quickly resolve the claims and speed cash to 4.4 million eligible homeowners.

There is no consideration of the possibility that the administration failed in doing requisite preparation with Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak prior to dropping on Israel the bomb of a blanket settlement freeze demand -- which might have been well-received by the Israeli public, had it been accompanied by gestures on the Palestinian or wider Arab side.

Garden City, a legal-administration service, recently sent out a blanket proposed settlement for 298 initial public offerings that took place in 1999 and 2000.

Of course, no Palestinian state will emerge on a West Bank blanketed with settlements, and the future of the larger, more far-flung settlements must ultimately be decided by a negotiated agreement.

Over the past few months Warren and other legislators have repeatedly asked bank regulators at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve for more information about the case-by-case review of homeowner loans that was dropped in January in favor of a blanket $9.3 billion settlement.