Sentence examples for win a settlement from inspiring English sources

But even if people in foreclosure never win a settlement from a bank, they could stay a few more months in their homes by filing a lawsuit.

He first gained national attention in the late 1990s for helping win a settlement of $248 billion from the tobacco industry.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan took on Callahan's case as a co-counsel and helped win a settlement in September that allowed her to swim at the state meet, along with at least six other high school girls with disabilities.

Plaintiffs' lawyers are typically paid only if they win a settlement or a trial, so they are more reluctant to press difficult cases if they know they will have to go to trial.

The financial risks of pressing such suits can be large for both the plaintiffs and the lawyers, who must shoulder court costs and get nothing unless they eventually win a settlement.

E. B. Leisenring Jr., the scion of a powerful Pennsylvania coal family who led industry negotiators during a long and bitter mine workers' strike in 1978, ignoring pleas by President Jimmy Carter and helping to win a settlement that largely favored mine owners, died on March 2 at his winter home in Aiken, S.C.

Armstrong won a settlement.

She won a settlement and an apology.

Father Conley eventually won a settlement from the archdiocese.

Bergé sued for breach of contract and won a settlement.

He won a settlement, but that attracted the wrong friends.