Sentence examples for state settlements from inspiring English sources

Microsoft has established a reserve of $1.55 billion to cover the state settlements.

The company's decision to settle the cases with the states follows several other large state settlements and court decisions involving Risperdal.

Unfortunately, that sequence of events disqualifies her from participating in the redemption of her securities as dictated by the various state settlements.

The company has paid $100 million in state settlements, without admitting wrongdoing; an executive has been charged with Medicaid fraud.

"1999 had below trend line operating fundamentals due to state settlements and weak international markets, and these have normalized," he says.

Daynard says that "we saw some reasonably substantial drops" in smoking by teens and children after manufacturers raised prices to pay for the state settlements of tobacco litigation in 1998.

That part of the cable appears to accurately reflect the details of the state settlement announced in July 2009.

They were the only eligible families who did not accept their share of an $11 million state settlement.

In the leaked cable, the embassy describes Mr. Liggeri and two Pfizer lawyers briefing the ambassador and an economics deputy about the state settlement.

If a state settlement morphs into yet another gift to the banks, let's hope that at least some attorneys general will take a different path.

The New York State settlement seems to short-circuit that process for the subset of indirect investors who invested with Mr. Madoff through Mr. Merkin's funds.