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3 <br />report of the fees and expenses incurred by the Special Master pursuant to Section <br />V.B.2 of the Distributor Agreement. <br />c)Claims Priority and Limitation. <br />i.The Special Master will submit invoices for compensation of reasonable fees and <br />expenses to the Plaintiff Subdivision Committee no later than ninety (90) days prior <br />to the Payment Date for each Annual Payment. The Plaintiff Subdivision Committee <br />will promptly review and, if reasonable, approve the Special Master’s invoice for <br />compensation. The Plaintiff Subdivision Committee will submit approved invoices <br />to the Settlement Fund Administrator for payment. The Special Master’s approved <br />invoices have priority and will be paid first from the CA Subdivision Fund before <br />any award of Costs, subject to the limitation in Section 2.c.v below. <br />ii.Final Awards of Costs that do not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars <br />($75,000.00) will be paid next in priority after the Special Master’s approved <br />invoices. <br />iii.Final Awards of Costs in excess of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00) will <br />be paid proportionally from the funds remaining in that year’s Annual Payment. <br />iv.Any claim for Costs that is not paid in full will be allocated against the next year’s <br />distribution from the CA Subdivision Fund, until all approved claims for Costs are <br />paid in full. <br />v.In no event will more than 50% of the total CA Subdivision Fund received in any <br />year be used to pay Costs or the Special Master’s approved invoices. <br />vi.In no event shall more than $28 million of the total CA Subdivision Funds paid <br />pursuant to the Distributor Settlement Agreement and the Janssen Settlement <br />Agreement be used to pay Costs. <br />d)Collateral Source Payments and Third-Party Settlement. <br />i.In the event a Plaintiff Subdivision is awarded compensation, in whole or in part, by <br />any source of funds created as a result of litigation against an Opioid Defendant for <br />its reasonable Costs, it will reduce its claim for Costs from the CA Subdivision <br />Fund by that amount. If a Plaintiff Subdivision has already received a final award of <br />Costs from the CA Subdivision Fund, it will repay the fund up to the prior award of <br />Costs via a payment to the Settlement Fund Administrator or notify the Settlement <br />Fund Administrator that its allocation from the next and subsequent Annual <br />Payments should be reduced accordingly. If the Plaintiff Subdivision is repaying <br />any prior award of Costs, that repayment will occur as soon as is feasible after the <br />Plaintiff Subdivision’s receipt of Cost funds from the collateral source, but no more <br />than 90 days after its receipt from the collateral source. The Settlement Fund <br />Administrator will add any repaid Costs to the CA Subdivision Fund. <br />312