Companies settle lawsuits all the time for claims they believe are meritlesss, for two reasons:
1. Going through a lawsuit all the way to conclusion, even if you win, is a long, expensive process that potentially exposes you to a considerable amount of negative publicity and causes a degree of internal chaos.
2. Juries are unpredictable and even a small chance of a bad outcome may be worth paying to avoid.
If this is to be believed, they've set aside _billions_ for cancer-related claims and pulled the product from the residential market, and there are still questions about the EPA's ruling that it is safe. Definitive, no, but certainly raises serious questions.
A surprisingly common form of conversational failure is when two (or more) parties are discussing some matter all with different ideas as to what is being discussed or the context of the discussion.
I'd run across a good description of that recently though I can't seem to recall where / find it presently.
It's not included in this discussion of Wiio's Laws, though there's enough other material there that's excellent guidance for communication that I'm linking it regardless:
1. Going through a lawsuit all the way to conclusion, even if you win, is a long, expensive process that potentially exposes you to a considerable amount of negative publicity and causes a degree of internal chaos.
2. Juries are unpredictable and even a small chance of a bad outcome may be worth paying to avoid.