How We Protect Plaintiffs, Injury Victims
In the settlement of just about any kind of dispute, those that caused your injuries, or whom you wish to settle with have their own agendas concerning your financial decisions.
What Agendas? look here for a famous example.
They have legions of experts to assist them in putting their interests ahead of yours in your personal physical injury settlement.
We are the firm that protects you
Working with your attorney, we help shift the balance of power to your side of the table. The defense and their experts have the best interests of the DEFENSE in mind; we work with your attorney to ensure that YOUR best interests are being upheld during the financial aspects of the settlement.
How Does the Defense Try To Dictate Your Settlement?
Casualty Companies and large self-insured corporations and hospitals want to profit off of you as they are “going out the door” after settlement of your claim.
They do this by imposing their choice of Structured Settlement broker on you at your mediation or claim settlement conference, or in discussions, usually with you or your attorney.
Often the defense will say something like: “Our company has a steadfast corporate policy that requires that our broker be used if you want the benefits of a structured settlement.”
When pressed on the issue, they then give the additional reason that, “this involves a special area of the law, and we need our broker to read (or create) the documents, and to generally protect our interests, or we just won’t do it. After all, if something went wrong down the road, our (casualty or self-insured) company could still be liable.”
NOW, WAIT A MINUTE! When a case is settled, the injured victim gives the defendant and their insurance companies, if they are insured, a Full, Complete and Irrevocable Release.
This means that except for perhaps fraud, you the plaintiff/injury victim, are releasing them, and that means ALL of them, the defendant, their insurers, executives, administrators, stockholders, agents, attorneys, etc., etc., from the beginning of time to the end of time, for ALL claims that could arise out of the accident or incident giving rise to your settlement, EVEN FUTURE CLAIMS!
So if they are fully, completely and irrevocably released FROM EVERYTHING, how is it that they might remain liable down the road, if anything goes wrong with your settlement or any future payments that flow from it?
How is that?
Why does the defense want to dictate the terms of your settlement?
Does it seem strange to you that the defense wants to control your financial future long after receiving a full release of liability?
It should.
Their motives are often not entirely pure when they try to dictate the terms of a structured settlement.
Why is rebating a bad thing?
After all, it is paid out of the commissions and fees earned on structured settlement annuities, and doesn’t really come out of the injury victims pocket, does it? Well the problem with rebating is that, human nature being what it is, it sets up a situation where the defense broker that is paying the rebate or kick-back, is tempted to look for ways to generate the payment without it coming out of his commission. And what ways are there to do that? Look again at this.
Quite simply, the defendant insurance company wants to position itself to save money for itself. . . often at your expense, and certainly without your knowing.
The only way you can be certain your interests are protected is by retaining (at no cost to you) your own plaintiff-loyal settlement planning specialist. Otherwise, some or all of the following tricks could be used against you resulting in economic harm.
Heard Enough?
Then contact us now to discuss how we might help you plan your settlement, without defense intrusion and interference, or if your case is currently being negotiated, to discuss whether you are being abused or short-changed and what you can do about it TODAY!
Not Convinced Yet?
Then READ AGAIN about the deceitful, underhanded, and just plain sneaky methods that casualty companies and self-insured defendants use to profit off your injury.
Still Not Convinced?
Then read what others are saying about Jack Meligan and SPI.
What, You Are Still Not Convinced??
Then, don’t feel that this is a lost cause - we can probably help you.
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