Though the settlement contained a contingency agreement that the board of the insurance company had to approve any deal, Mr. Coffey said the term was described by Andersen lawyers as a technicality, included to avoid scheduling a special meeting of the insurer's board.
As waste water coming from human settlements contains a complex mixture of bacteria, resistance genes and antibacterial agents, polluted waterways become a huge reactor for generating bacteria that carry multiple resistance genes.
While the postwar Keynesian settlement contained an explicit deal linking rising real wages to rising productivity, neoliberalism contained an implicit deal based on access to cheap credit.
Moody's said that it stands behind the integrity of its ratings and noted that the settlement contains no finding of a violation of law or admission of liability.
If your divorce settlement contains provisions such as the selling the family home within a specified time frame or establishes alimony or child support payments or a child custody parenting plan, watch carefully to make sure these agreements are actually carried out -- and resolve to take action if your spouse fails to keep up his/her end of the bargain.
Even if Google's rivals were to eventually gain their own deal, the Google settlement currently contains a "most favored national status," which assures that would-be competitors could not get a better settlement deal than Google.
The settlement contains no admission of fraud, reckless risk-taking, or deliberately misleading investors — a point noted by Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and who has been pushing for tougher sanctions on too-big-to-fail banks like JP Morgan.
The settlement agreement contains a three-year nondisparagement clause, which prohibits PHH from publicly making negative comments about Blackstone.
Hagemann said the settlement contains no admission of guilt.
Whatever the peace settlement contains, the fight is over.
