Sentence examples for class settlements from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

In essence, the plan is a voluntary process designed to result in a class settlement.

For the purpose of this study, similar land use categories, such as dry spiny forest thicket and open spiny forest, were merged into one category (here: spiny forest and thicket), and one additional class, settlement area, was defined.

Another reason for withholding judgment is that a U.S. district judge in Alabama has just appointed a similar panel to examine the scientific case against implants in a class settlement that could amount to $3 billion.

"There is resounding support for this consumer class settlement and the substantial benefits it provides," Elizabeth Cabraser, lead attorney for Volkswagen owners, said in a statement. .

"Working-class settlements here don't communicate much with one another," the group's director, Jesus Torrealba, says.