JWA did recover such damages — but although JWA and the USACE finalized their Settlement Agreement in September 2013, and although the lump-sum $8,000,000 payment was invoiced in October 2013, JWA technically did not receive any funds until November 4, 2013. Consequently, Chasney believes that the October 31 Partial Release was “completely ineffective to waive or release Chasney’s rights to compensation for the [delay] damages.” (Id.) Unfortunately for Chasney, its logic finds no support in the law. Parties routinely enter settlement agreements through which they waive all claims— present and future, known and unknown— arising from a particular set of circumstances, and courts routinely enforce such agreements. See, e.g., Bernstein v. Kapneck, 290 Md. 452, 430 A.2d 602, 609 (1981) (<HOLDING>); Command Tech., Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp.,
holding that a release of unknown claims has no effect in the absence of evidence apart from the words of the release holding that injuries covered by the act are not limited to external traumatic injuries holding that a prior release of all claims on account of bodily injuries known and unknown and which have resulted or may in the future develop barred the petitioners claim for laterdiscovered injuries holding that although claimant was aware of lung and hearing injuries caused by exposure to noise and pollution at work as early as 1970 his 1984 claim was not barred by the statute of limitations because his injuries resulted from ongoing exposure when he filed the claim holding that bodily injury does not include purely emotional injuries