In the context of alternatives to the litigation system, claims resolution facilities function to enable the disaggregation of liability from damages in the determination of legal entitlements either individually or collectively, in settlement or as a precursor to litigation.
But I persisted, and the "Câmara de Indenização 3054 the first-ever Brazilian claims resolution facility was opened on April 24 , 2008
"We're making really good progress," said Mr. Miller, who is in charge of the claims resolution process.
In 2001 and 2002 she was a staff lawyer for the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich, which processes claims for dormant Swiss bank accounts from the Nazi era.
Diego Faleck (center) with staff hired to assist family members of passengers killed in the crash of TAM Flight 3054, at the claims resolution facility he established.
The Claims Resolution Tribunal, the Zurich-based body set up last year to review and pay claims, has had 32,000 claims filed but, to date, has paid slightly less than $17 million to 135 claimants.
In December, the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons, the panel led by Mr. Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, said a centralized database was needed "to reach a speedy conclusion to the claims resolution process".
> I hope someone might be able to help me find the following article: Seppala, Christopher R., FIDIC's New Standard Forms of Contract: Claims, Resolution of Disputes and the Dispute Adjudication Board, Revue de Droit des Affaires Int ernationales, pp. 3 -12001, 2001).
(The rest of the $1.25 billion settlement fund is being used to pay the claims of other Holocaust victims, including slave laborers who worked for German and Swiss companies and refugees who were denied entrance to Switzerland during the war. More information can be found at www.crt-ii.org, the Claims Resolution Tribunal's Web site).
The Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, based in Zurich, was established as part of a comprehensive examination of bank accounts in response to allegations that Switzerland's financial institutions improperly held funds deposited by Jews trying to flee Nazi Germany.
