11.   Alaska Airlines president and chief executive officer John Kelly has also said the company will likely settle its contract with representatives of the clerical workers.

12.   Brinkley said the company settled on Hill after first expressing interest in Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan for the new youth line.

13.   Both companies settled the lawsuits.

14.   But insurance companies are also settling lawsuits from customers who contend that their policies as written cover teen-agers, so there is no need to report them to insurers.

15.   But the company must still settle the dispute with the pilots over its acquisition of Reno Air, a small airline in the West.

16.   But the company settled the lawsuit last year and took down the Web site.

17.   But the company settled the case just before it went to the jury.

18.   Companies settled almost all of these lawsuits, arguing that the cost of fighting them was prohibitive.

19.   Companies sometimes settle claims they regard as meritless just to avoid expensive court struggles.

20.   Companies may settle relatively weak claims for the full amount of coverage, he said, because they have no incentive to try to reduce the settlement.