Sentence examples for paid settlements from inspiring English sources

In each case, defendants have paid settlements before trial.

Instead, the companies paid settlements to the government totaling $311 million.

Much of that money comes from the United States, whose telephone companies last year paid settlements of a net $5.4 billion.The trouble with capping prices is that this merely tinkers with the accounting rates.

Frank J. Vandall, an Emory University law professor, said there was probably no way Blitz could have avoided at least some of the lawsuits, although he questioned why the company paid settlements if it thought it could win in court.

The Sun-Times reported that Mr. Kelly in recent years paid settlements to three young women who filed suit or threatened to sue him over sexual relationships that they said were coerced or had occurred when they were minors.

[C7.] Trade Settlements Are Reported Several companies have paid settlements for violating sanctions on trade and investment in parts of Afghanistan and in North Korea, Libya, Cuba, Iraq and Iran, according to government documents.

He said he was troubled less by the relationship than by the paid settlement.

Dioceses have only a handful of options for paying settlements.

And the real wage has been slashed in the last few years as pay settlements have lagged behind price rises.

Many, like the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., have investigated allegations against such priests and helped pay settlements.

Workers' pay settlements are running at 3-4%.The bosses' figures refer mainly to financial years ending last December or March.