"We think this could be as big as the mortgage crisis settlement, that this could be a really high impact situation and that we should be aggressive on this," Ms. Cowell said, referring to the $25 billion settlement that the nation's biggest banks entered with state attorneys general.
This week, two mortgage-crisis settlements hit the news: one potential and one official.
Among the most upbeat of them is Mr. Sterligov, who, just as the credit crunch brought most business deals to a halt, shoveled $13 million into the Anti-Crisis Settlement and Commodity Center.
There may be more civil fraud suits related to the financial crisis, producing settlements and fines.
In a half-hour address to leaders of the 192 countries that form the UN general assembly, Obama depicted the crisis over settlements as a test that was fast approaching.
The hints of flexibility came as diplomats worked to defuse a potential crisis over settlement building that threatens to derail fledgling Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The most expensive hit still to come is over residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) sold in the US before the 2008 crisis, although settlement talks are yet to begin.
The effects of medieval agrarian crisis on settlement and population were considered in a major interdisciplinary research project in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 1970s.
LAST week, in an effort to solve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, I withdrew settlements in the Gaza Strip.
There have been countless private suits by investors — for example, in the same Bear Stearns hedge fund case that led to the only prosecution (and acquittals) following the financial crisis, plaintiffs won settlements in arbitration.
New types of sanitation services are emerging to tackle the sanitation crisis in informal settlements.
