ABG, owned by Toronto-based Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold-mining company, said it was saddened by any injury or loss of life at its operations "but we will not compensate illegitimate claims or lawsuits".
Many have "had legitimate claims and they went on for eight, nine, 10 years". Vaccine compensation officials refused to be interviewed, but in written statements they said the program had "an excellent record of promptly and appropriately compensating" valid claims.
The liquidation plan describes how the estate will compensate creditors, whose claims total about $550 million.
After the guilty verdict came down, Penn State announced that it was setting up a "forum" for victims to approach the school directly, "privately, expeditiously and fairly address the victims' concerns and compensate them for claims relating to the university".
The money, along with $100 million allocated in last year's farm bill, is meant to compensate farmers filing claims after settlement in 1999 of a suit accusing the government of denying agricultural loans to black farmers.
"The purpose of the program is simple — the university wants to provide a forum where the university can privately, expeditiously and fairly address the victims' concerns and compensate them for claims relating to the university".
Between 1968 and 1971, a succession of bills were introduced into the U.S. Congress to compensate statewide Native claims.
Currently concerned agencies mostly rely on field surveys to obtain crop loss information and compensate farmers' loss claim.
Facebook undertook to change the wording in the wake of a legal action launched in 2011 which saw it pay $20m £13mm) to compensate users who claimed it had used their data without explicit permission.
