111.   Those claims were settled through later trade deals, he said.

112.   Those lawyers also said that Bristol-Myers had offered to substantially increase the amount of money it was willing to pay to settle claims against it.

113.   This could well embolden other companies not to settle similar claims.

114.   To try to prevent economic development of their tribal lands until their claim had been settled, the Lubicons turned to the justice system.

115.   Two asbestos manufacturers filed suit against the largest U.S. cigarette companies to recover money spent fending off or settling claims by cancer victims who smoked.

116.   Unrelated to the new federal law, governments have agreed, on a few occasions, to settle damage claims with individual families.

117.   Until now, the U.N. Compensation Commission has had little money to settle the claims it approved.

118.   Visx Inc. said LaserSight Inc. agreed to settle legal claims that it infringed on overseas patents for a surgical laser system to correct vision problems.

119.   What remains unclear, though, is how numerous and significant these lawsuits will be and how fast insurers will move to settle claims.

120.   While the banks have contributed to funds in Switzerland, the new fund would settle legal claims, and in that sense is restitution rather than contribution.