Sentence examples for industry settlements from inspiring English sources

That claim echoes those in suits against the tobacco industry that ultimately led to industry settlements and increased government regulation.

He also asks for money from industry settlements with Napster, Kazaa, Grokster and other file-sharing services, and says he is owed $2.5 million from Sony's share of the sale of YouTube in 2006.

Frances H. Miller, a Boston University law professor and health policy expert, said, "Although $3 billion is a very big number in terms of drug industry settlements, it's not a very big number in relation to almost $50 billion in annual revenue for the world's fourth-largest pharmaceutical company".

The result: an industry settlement worth $13 billion over the next two decades.

Mr. Bachus accused Ms. Warren of mischaracterizing her recent participation in the mortgage service industry settlement talks.

Many states have sold bonds backed by the money they expect to receive over 25 years from the tobacco companies, under an industry settlement reached in 1998.

And what about the issue of how cancer research financing (particularly for lung cancer) has not benefited from the states' tobacco industry settlement?

In addition to delaying money owed to schools, Minnesota under Mr. Pawlenty balanced its books by using money from a tobacco industry settlement meant for health care and $2.3 billion from the federal stimulus.

Of the $246 billion to be paid to states from the tobacco industry settlement, none was earmarked for cancer research, and so far most of the money received is being used for non-cancer-related programs.

Worse, he began pushing to use money from the tobacco industry settlement to boost the state's borrowing power, a quick fix that only adds to long-term problems.

He warned that Morgan Stanley could face further legal action if it continued to deny having acted badly in the research scandal, which was the subject of a $1.4 billion industry settlement.