While successful, the costs of litigation to the health system are steadily growing, and stand at around £446m a year.

Even without the costs of litigation, the Democratic plan would be a disaster for patients and their employers.

"This matter was settled to eliminate the enormous time and costs of litigation."

In some cases, government lawyers, like insurance companies, settle claims to avoid the costs of litigation.

It's hard to measure the costs of litigation directly.

He said the wineries had agreed to the settlement to avoid the costs of litigation.

Other times, litigants may simply need money to pay for the costs of litigation and attorneys' fees.

A settlement was reached between the States at the beginning of the 20th century because the costs of litigation had grown too high.

He said the settlement was a "down and dirty business decision" to settle the suit to avoid the costs of litigation.

Hence, the costs of litigation for minority shareholders would be indemnified by the company.

However, there was still evidence that many meritorious claims were discouraged by the difficulties and costs of litigation.

Dr. Berenson said the task force proposal would cut the costs of litigation.

First, the costs of litigation and compensation payouts raise the cost of insurance.

First, aggregation can increase the efficiency of the legal process, and lower the costs of litigation.

Its goal is to achieve equality of compensation, while reducing costs of litigation.

More importantly, they make bigger salaries so they can pay the upfront costs of litigation.

The manufacturer won most of the cases against it but quit making the drug: the costs of litigation were insupportable.

One legal battleground across the country that is attracting wide interest here is a fight between lawyers and insurance companies over the costs of litigation.

It concluded that the rising costs of litigation are draining valuable resources from American business, making it less competitive.

Consequently, it can be determined whether relatively the costs of litigation are too high when compared with the amount of damages awarded.

But Judge Weinstein said he believed that judges should keep the costs of litigation in line with the size of their cases.

"Insurance pricing is driven by the underlying costs of litigation, medical care and fraud, and these regulations do nothing about those problems.

Merrill Lynch agreed to this settlement in order to put this matter behind us and to avoid the risks and the costs of litigation.

And the costs of litigation and licensing fees to settle patent disputes have become facts of life for technology companies.

Mr. Kratz and many of his customers see another culprit: insurance companies that offer policies covering the costs of litigation.