Sentence examples for class settlement from inspiring English sources

"It is not common in a class case for the certified class representative to object to a class settlement, although it occasionally happens".

It deemed that the company and its insurers could not negotiate a class settlement that might be exhausted before all claims were paid.Some believe that the fears over the impact on insurers of the disreputable, flaky mineral are overdone.

The class settlement would give those with serious damage -- and who did not opt out of the class action -- payments of $7,400 to nearly $1.5 million, depending on factors like age and the degree of damage.

Only nine former NFL players have opted out of the proposed class settlement in the NFL concussion litigation with less than two weeks to go before the deadline, according to a filing Thursday by the lead players' lawyers.

Mr. Gordon said Weitz & Luxenberg had "turned down far more than we accepted" of those who responded to its advertisements, which stopped running two weeks ago, and had told many callers to stick with the class settlement plan "if they don't have a significant claim".

Judge Carl J. Barbier of Federal District Court in New Orleans issued an order late Friday night stating that the two sides "have reached an agreement on the terms of a proposed class settlement which will be submitted to the court," and announcing that the first phase of the trial, scheduled to begin on Monday, is adjourned indefinitely while the next steps are worked out.

But the appeals court found the exclusions reasonable and noted that all class settlements entailed compromises.

Moreover, the high court's decision could discourage businesses from entering class settlements, potentially raising the cost of litigation from a record high of $224 billion in 2002, according to consulting firm Tillinghast-Towers Perrin.

In a large upper-middle-class settlement of Gurgaon, which is a part of the National Capital Region, parents dropping their children off at school almost always use their smaller, more modest cars.

Outside Gate 34 of Ford's assembly plant in this working-class settlement east of London, Steve Johnston, 42, said that after 23 years of working for Ford here, he had one question: "Why Dagenham?

She told BBC Wales correspondent Hywel Griffith there was an appetite for more powers in Wales but fears the country could end up with a second-class settlement.