I’ve paid money I did not owe in a legal action, because my lawyers pointed out that legal fees to continue to fight the problem plus my lost time would greatly exceed my savings when I won. Not IF I won, but WHEN I won. I took their advice and paid money I did not owe. I hated to do it, but it saved me a bundle.
There are a number of good reasons people may opt to settle claims, even claims without merit.
I doubt that Cosby settled because he didn’t want to waste money, I think it had more to do with the 10 or 13 women willing to also testify.
Constand had accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2004.
“” Former (republican) Pennsylvania prosecutor Bruce L. Castor Jr., who investigated a woman’s claims that Cosby had sexually assaulted her in 2004, said Wednesday he decided not to prosecute because he felt there was not enough evidence to get a conviction.
“I wrote my opinion in such a way as I thought conveyed to the whole world that I thought he had done it, he had just gotten away with it because of a lack of evidence,” the former Montgomery County district attorney said.””