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Miniace, PMA settle lawsuit.(settlement of case between Joseph Miniace and Pacific Maritime Association )

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| July 30, 2007 | Mongelluzzo, Bill | COPYRIGHT 2002 All Rights Reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

BYLINE: BY BILL MONGELLUZZO

A bitter, complicated legal dispute that followed the dismissal of Joseph Miniace as president of the Pacific Maritime Association has been quietly settled after three years of litigation in a federal court in San Francisco.

More than $1 million in alleged damages and unpaid bonuses were at stake, but Miniace and the West Coast waterfront employers' organization dropped countercharges against each other under an agreement that omitted any payment between the two sides.

The PMA, however, is still trying to collect a $10.2 million insurance payment that the association claimed Miniace improperly helped steer to the widow of…

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