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More than 9,000 ground zero workers eligible for a settlement of up to $712.5 million from the city over health claims now stand to get another $47 million in a separate settlement with the Port Authority.

PAGE A22 Metropolitan WITH NEW SETTLEMENT, More for 9/11 Workers More than 9,000 ground zero workers eligible for a settlement of up to $712.5 million from the city over health claims now stand to get another $47 million in a separate settlement with the Port Authority.

Under the new rules, shrimp and crab fishermen are eligible for a final settlement equal to four times their demonstrable losses from 2010.

Mr. McDonnell argues that the potential damages run much higher: based on the damages awarded to the state of Minnesota, he says that Ireland is eligible for a $23 billion settlement.

You may be eligible for a lawsuit settlement.

But many of the very people who are most eligible to apply for a settlement — out-of-work shrimpers, fishermen and dock workers — are also the people who were hired to do cleanup work for BP.

A Florida circuit judge ruled that the University of Central Florida Athletic Association was not a state agency eligible for a $200,000 cap on settlement money in a lawsuit filed by the parents of Ereck Plancher, a player who died after an off-season conditioning workout in 2008.

When the N.F.L. agreed to pay $765 million to settle a lawsuit brought by 4,500 retired players who said the league hid from them the long-term impact of concussions, lawyers in the case said all retirees would be eligible for a share of the settlement.

Several dozen workers have also discovered that they were taken on as clients even though they were never eligible for the settlement because they had taken money from a federal victims compensation fund that prohibited pursuing lawsuits.

"Investors who moved their relationships away from UBS while liquidity for auction-rate securities was still available through the auction process are not eligible for our settlement offering, as they were no longer using a UBS financial adviser for investment advisory or brokerage services at the time that auctions failed," said Karina Byrne, the spokeswoman.

Despite the offer, I.R.S. officials said some corporations would not be eligible for the settlement.