No official estimates existed on the number of potential claimants.

Therefore, more than 800,000 potential claimants would share a settlement of less than $3 million.

Some calls for reform stress the difficulties encountered by potential claimants.

The bar is set high for a potential claimant to successfully challenge a transfer.

But the volume of telephone calls from potential claimants was small yesterday.

"But if we were going to settle, it would have had to cover all present and potential claimants," he said.

That includes several thousand potential claimants, according to a person involved with the class action.

After that, potential claimants will be given information on what to do.

Since then, the vest has been shown to the public annually as a call to potential claimants to step forward.

An advertising campaign will alert potential claimants, who are expected to receive an average of about $2,500 each.