It's likely that JPMorgan will want to settle the Virgin Islands lawsuit because it does not want to be dragged down by continued negative publicity, said Eric Chaffee, a professor at the University of Toledo College of Law. Still, he said, while JPMorgan has an incentive to put the case to rest, "They're not going to want to overpay to simply to settle the matter." Several Wall Street analysts suggested JPMorgan would emerge from the litigation without issue. Eric Compton, an analyst at Morningstar, called the settlement "immaterial in the grand scheme of things for JPMorgan when it comes to thinking about how to value the bank," in an email to The Post. Dick Bove, a financial strategist at Odeon Capital Group, said that while the settlement amount was on the high side, it's essentially a "business cost."