41.   Having fewer people may mean delays in settling claims, analysts say, giving insurers more time to hold and invest customer premiums.

42.   He and Schroeder urged German businesses to settle compensation claims filed by those who worked as slave laborers under the Nazi regime.

43.   He has settled a claim with NBC for an undisclosed amount of money.

44.   He said the company agreed to settle the claims because the cost of continuing the litigation was prohibitive, and jurors remained unconvinced by the earlier studies.

45.   He said the university agreed to settle the claims to avoid lengthy and costly litigation and focus resources on keeping the pharmacy in Cambridge, Mass. in compliance.

46.   He predicted that lawyers would press political institutions in both nations to bring pressure on the governments to settle the claims.

47.   His former lawyers, accountants, appraisers and business partners have paid several hundred million dollars to settle claims that they aided his reputed fraud.

48.   However, chief executives at RJR and B.A.T recently said they would consider settling claims, and Philip Morris said it would study any proposal.

49.   However, he said, Allianz did keep files relating to the expropriations and these were used in the postwar era to help settle claims against West Germany.

50.   If the property is sold without settling those claims, the sale of the property could be contested.