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This is classic "floodgates" reasoning but for once it actually makes some sense: if settlements are not final then there is no incentive to take them up.
Indeed, insofar as settlements are written specifically as full and final by the Defendant's lawyers Defendants cannot, nay should not, have the option to open them up again if they can dredge up favorable evidence.
Put another way, would Zurich have been as keen to unravel the settlement if it emerged that the Claimant had under estimated his state of recovery?
Exactly!

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