never approved or *260 consented to the settlement that AGF entered into.
During this time, BFI remained liable for daily charter fees pursuant to the charter party agreement with Donjon. Although the charter agreement was set to expire on July 6, 2001, by its terms it continued in force and effect until the barges were returned to Donjon. By the time the general release was executed and the barges were returned, the additional charter fees totaled $187,000. BFI refused to pay the fees and advised Donjon that the additional fees were solely attributable to the acts and omissions of the Defendants.
In 2002, Donjon commenced a civil action against BFI in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, index number 02CV841, ("New Jersey Action") seeking compensatory damages ofA case of occipitocervical fusion in myeloma.
Posterior fusion (from occiput to C4) with an iliac graft on the right side and methyl methacrylate on the left side was performed in a 49-year-old woman with an osteolytic destruction of the second vertebral body caused by multiple myeloma. Thirty months after the fusion, the patient remains free from pain, although there is progression of the osteolytic lesion, now extending to the third vertebral body.