Why You Shouldn’t Rush a Settlement: Getting the Full Compensation You Deserve

When you’ve been injured in an accident, it’s natural to want your case resolved as quickly as possible. Your bills are piling up, you want to be compensated, and you’re ready to move on with your life. In this video, we explain why rushing a settlement can cost you. Settling before you’ve completed your medical treatment means we can only include the bills and lost wages incurred up to that point—any future medical costs, missed work, or long-term complications won’t be covered. We also walk through why final medical evaluations are so important: they help determine whether you’ve suffered a long-term or permanent injury, which must be properly compensated. Once a case is settled, in most situations there’s no going back, so finishing your treatment first is critical to making sure you receive the full value of your claim.

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Video Transcription
When you have an accident case, everybody's anxious for a settlement. You will be compensated, your bills will be paid, and you can move on with your life. However, you do not want to rush a settlement.

To do a settlement properly, to get full compensation, you need to go through certain steps. If you stop halfway through your medical treatment and settle your case, you will not get full compensation. You'll get at half. Moreover, we won't have important information about any long-term injuries or permanent injuries, and therefore you will not be fully compensated.

Let's say, for example, that you're injured and you're incurring medical bills. If we go to settlement and try to negotiate your case while you're only halfway done with your treatment, we can only include the medical bills up to that point. There's a good chunk of medical bills that you will not be compensated for. There's a lot of time missed from work that you will not be compensated for because we've already settled your case and you're still going to the doctor, still missing work.

By finishing your medical treatment and then going to settlement, not only will we make sure we include everything, all your medical bills and all your lost wages, but those final visits are very important. That'll tell us as attorneys whether you have a long-term injury and a permanent injury, and you need to be compensated for those because those can be devastating.

Moreover, if we settle and then we find out you have a permanent injury, many times we cannot go back and do anything about it.