11.   Lawsuits and threatened lawsuits have raised the pressure on German firms to address the claims of concentration camp inmates, mostly Jews, forced to work in their factories.

12.   Lawsuits and threatened lawsuits have raised the pressure on German firms to address the claims of concentration camp inmates, mostly Jews, forced to toil in their factories.

13.   Separately an Austrian government commission is examining options for compensating victims of Nazi looting and unjust post-World War II restitution laws, in the face of threatened lawsuits.

14.   Swiss officials said Friday they would fight a threatened new massive lawsuit from the United States over World War II.

15.   The commission was set up by the government earlier this fall in the face of threatened lawsuits by lawyers representing the families of victims.

16.   The deal sidesteps a threatened patent lawsuit.

17.   They said they were not overly worried about a threatened lawsuit by the French skier.