If you settle the debt for less than the amount owed, the collector will probably agree to mark the account "paid - settled" instead.
The more settled formation paid dividends within five minutes.
Second, our data source, NPDB, may understate the number of settled malpractice claims because settlements paid on behalf of corporate entities rather than physicians are exempted from reporting.
One defendant paid out $2,000 in litigation, and then settled for $125; a second settled by paying $25 and costs, amounting to $250, after a new trial had been granted, on a verdict for the plaintiff; a third paid $350 to satisfy all parties after a disagreement of the jury, conclusively proving that not much gets into the poor patient's pocket.
Mountain lions used to live all over the U.S. But, as our country became more and more settled and predator control programs encouraged and paid for the killing of all things big (or medium) and scary, mountain lions disappeared as the wave of human populations advanced westward.
Settled case in 2000 for $20.3 million without admitting wrongdoing; government paid his $1.25 million lawyer bill.
–On March 24 , 2005 the SEC announced another settled case, this time against Flowserve in Texas, in which the company paid a penalty of $350,000 without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations that company executives met with four investment and brokerage firms six weeks before the end of Flowserve's fiscal year.
This is why politicians, scientists, spokespeople and other paid actors sound satisfied when voicing no-shit-Sherlock absurdities like "Climate change is real" and "The science isn't settled" -- as if we truly wanted real change or settled science, when they so painfully interfere with our desires and addictions.
However, while only 15.43% of settled claims in 2009 17744 claims) resulted in payments greater than US$1 million, 48.12% of claims judged in court in 2009 (207 claims) paid more than US$1 million (p<0.001).
It doesn't matter who comes through that door -- nothing is going to affect your pay, so that's a settled and done deal -- just concentrate on watching that door and helping whoever walks through it".
[B4.] LABOR SUIT SETTLED Wal-Mart Stores said it would pay up to $54.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed it violated state laws on workers' break time in Minnesota.
