1.   -- When individuals have the right to reject the terms of a negotiated class-action lawsuit settlement.

2.   A dissident group of policyholders had sought to be excluded from the negotiated lawsuit settlement so they could pursue their own claims in court.

3.   But the number of agents unhappy with the lawsuit settlement and the new employment terms is growing.

4.   General Motors Corp. is trying to block a Houston firm from buying up coupons being sent to pickup truck owners as part of a class action lawsuit settlement.

5.   He plans to begin holding individual district departments accountable for legal expenses -- both the cost of consulting attorneys and of lawsuit settlements and judgments.

6.   I would like to know if the lawsuit settlement is legitimate before we send information about our child to the address listed for Gerber.

7.   If a juvenile ward gets any lawsuit settlement, that money can go toward victim restitution as well.

8.   Kirk Austin, who operated a diving subcontractor called Texas NDE Technologies Inc., declared bankruptcy before the lawsuit settlement and also could not be reached.

9.   Matching funds to draw the federal money were earmarked in the recent tobacco lawsuit settlement.

10.   One element of the lawsuit settlement did not please the environmental groups.