The settlements bring to $350 million the amount Schwab has agreed to pay to resolve litigation involving YieldPlus.
He added, "E.P.A. will not resolve litigation through backroom deals with any type of special-interest group".
It is UBS's second settlement in less than three weeks to resolve litigation in the United States tied to the global financial crisis.
Mr. O'Neal, who barely spoke during the meeting, dismissed speculation that the costs of resolving litigation over its research recommendations could cripple the firm or drive it to sell itself to another bank.
Mr. Baldwin said he was hamstrung about what he could say by a legal settlement the town entered into in 2002 to resolve litigation against the town related to her tenure on the town's Police Commission.
The dispute was over $372 million the company paid to resolve litigation with the family of the chief executive, Edward J. Shoen, that it deducted from Amerco's income taxes, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
At the time, David J. Sheehan, Picard's chief counsel, said in a statement, "In addition to recovering as much stolen money as possible for Madoff's victims, we are also moving aggressively to resolve litigation and appeals which are delaying further distributions".
The move will double Adidas's sales in North America and puts it in prime position to challenge Nike, the leader in sports apparel.See articleTime Warner said it had established $3 billion in reserves to resolve litigation brought by shareholders unhappy with the controversial acquisition of AOL in 2000 (an agreement in principle has been reached in a class-action lawsuit).
The company, based in Madison, N.J., will have paid a total of $11.2 billion by the end of this year to help resolve litigation over the fen-phen diet combination, Mr. Martin said at the company's annual meeting with analysts in New York.
The settlement resolves litigation brought by the DOJ in 2002 regarding certain outpatient physical therapy billing practices.
