Be sure to read our booklet on settlement costs.

Ms. Klein said the company's average settlement cost per case is $3,300.

With a new home, there could be settlement costs, which generally run about 1 percent of the purchase price.

Recently, the number of suits has declined slightly, but the settlement costs have risen.

It insists that none of the money from weekly collections will go towards settlement costs.

The utility expects that it will have to raise rates as much as 4 percent in the 1990's to pay settlement costs.

The specter of a coordinated state investigation could add to Lloyd's already formidable legal settlement costs.

Analysts are also concerned about the effect that price increases - long expected to finance the settlement costs - will have on cigarette sales.

Now you'll have the settlement costs, points, insurance, taxes.

By last summer, the firm admitted that its settlement costs would exceed the down payment, and injected another $305 million into the fund.