In going for a settlement rather than a trial, Mr Spitzer has spared the insurer the uncertainty of facing a jury and the possibility of embarrassing testimony.
(Another major corporate breakup -- of AT&T in 1984 -- resulted from of an out-of-court settlement rather than a court-ordered remedy).
So any resolution short of that point will have to come from a settlement rather than a judicial decision about whether the evidence is sufficient to prove a violation.
All of the MAC cases have been ultimately resolved through settlement rather than a determinative judicial judgment, though one difference has been that only a few deals, such as Accredited Home Lenders/Lone Star, have actually been renegotiated at a lower price; most have settled for a payment by the buyer to the seller, with deal itself being terminated.
The outcome is likely to be a settlement, rather than a court showdown, mostly because of the long roster of defendants.
Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), said those loose ends were deliberate, aimed at conning the loyalists into believing they had signed up to a settlement rather than a process.
The application was rejected by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, who stated that airports were required by regulation to be named after a settlement rather than a municipality.
The position of the hilltop indicate that it was easily defended; however, local finds indicate it was a high-status settlement rather than a military outpost unless a similar feature was located nearby.
Recent news has exposed how evidence of massive fraud was used to extract a bigger fine from JP Morgan in private, negotiated settlements, rather than as an opportunity to bring public, criminal prosecutions.
Whichever of them is crowned this morning, their main job over the next few years will be making settlements rather than cars, as a growing list of countries and lawyers fall over each other to launch investigations and court cases.
