assertion of a claim
pursuing a claim

Could the mere assertion of a claim effect so much of a change?

But not pursuing a claim may mean missing out on a risk-free cash settlement.

Lucent Technologies, the largest creditor, is separately pursuing a claim of about $485 million.

These include pursuing a claim for policy excess, car hire charges and loss of the use of one's vehicle.

I am a Veteran and pursuing a claim with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He denies the allegations which led to his sacking and is pursuing a claim of unfair dismissal against News International.

Most people prefer to avoid pursuing a claim if it means going to court because of the expense, which can sometimes end up being more than the amount of money in dispute.

The bodies and researchers which have considered the problem of access to lawyers all conclude that cost has a deterrent effect on seeking legal advice initially and then pursuing a claim.

But Italy was not aggressively pursuing a claim at the time, and the Met was initially cool to Mr. Bell's findings and attempts to study the objects.

She did not learn that her family once controlled the department-store empire until 1993, when the restitution court notified her and the other heirs that it was pursuing a claim on their behalf.

According to Joseph H. Koonz, Bergen's attorney, "If this accident had occurred in Maryland or Washington, Bergen would not have any difficulties in pursuing a claim for damages."

A CONVICTED mass murderer has, for the second time, bloodied the nose, metaphorically speaking, of Malcolm Rifkind, the Secretary of State for Scotland, by successfully pursuing a claim for damages.

A1 G.M. OPPOSES GOVERNMENT CLAIM General Motors filed suit to block the Government from pursuing a claim that millions of pickup trucks pose an "unreasonable risk."

When an insurer pays a claim to an insured, the insurer generally has the right to "step in the shoes" of the insured for the purpose of recapturing that money by pursuing a claim against the tortfeasor who may be liable for the loss.

Shortly after Thomas' election, Lanfranc, pursuing a claim that Canterbury was the primatial see, or bishopric, of England, demanded that Thomas provide a written oath swearing to obey both Lanfranc and any future Archbishops of Canterbury.

Because subrogation operates to prevent such over-recovery, it is considered to form part of the general law of unjust enrichment (i.e. preventing a party by being unjustly enriched by pursuing a claim for a loss in respect of which they have already been indemnified).

In 1989, lawyers for GTE questioned Mr. Baker in the deposition in pursuing a claim that the two top Home Shopping Network officials had erected "a complex, elaborate network of corporate entities to mask the true nature of their business self-dealings".

"I don't think that we would be pursuing a claim for any share of the money that Pets.com might get for that sock puppet," said Roger R. Myers, a lawyer for Steinhart & Falconer, a San Francisco firm that represents Mr. Smigel, the comedy writer.

Lawyers for Paula Corbin Jones pleaded with her last summer not to reject a proposed settlement of her sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton, warning that she was risking "devastation" in pursuing a claim that would sully her reputation, ultimately fail and "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."

Stephen Ware said that it is erroneous to only compare arbitration forum fees with court fees because, he says, the entire cost of pursuing a claim in arbitration will likely be lower than the entire cost of pursuing a claim in litigation.