You have settled your car accident claim and the money is either in your account or on its way, and now you are wondering whether the IRS is going to want a piece of it. This is one of the most common questions people have after settling a personal injury case, and the answer is […]
What Do I Do After I Receive My Settlement Check
Most people who receive a settlement check have spent months focused on getting to that moment. The accident, the treatment, the negotiations, the waiting. The check arriving feels like the finish line. In one important sense it is. In another sense, the decisions you make in the weeks and months after you receive it will […]
How Long Does a Settlement Check Take to Clear at the Bank
Settlement checks clear faster than most people expect and slower than most people want. The typical range for a settlement check deposited at a standard bank is one to five business days for the funds to become available, but that range has meaningful variation at both ends depending on the size of the check, the […]
Can You Cash a Settlement Check at Any Bank
You have your settlement check in hand and you want to know how to turn it into money you can actually use. The short answer is that cashing a settlement check at any bank is generally not possible, and trying to do it the wrong way is going to cost you time, possibly fees, and […]
What to Do If Settlement Check Is Lost in the Mail
A settlement check lost in the mail is one of those problems that sounds catastrophic and turns out to be manageable, provided you understand the specific steps that follow and the realistic timeline for resolving them. The money is not gone. A check is a payment instrument, not cash, and a lost check has remedies […]
Can You Get Interest If an Insurance Company Delays Your Settlement Payment
The question of whether a delayed insurance settlement payment earns interest is one that most people think about only after the delay has already stretched into weeks or months. By then they are frustrated, they have followed up multiple times, and someone has suggested that the insurance company should be paying them for the privilege […]
Can My Attorney Hold My Settlement Check Without My Permission
If your settlement funds have arrived at your attorney’s trust account and the money has not been disbursed to you yet, the first feeling is usually frustration. The second is suspicion. And the third, for a lot of people, is a question they feel uncomfortable asking: is my attorney actually allowed to do this. The […]
Can I Sue Insurance Company for Delaying Settlement Payment
The answer is yes, but the more useful answer requires understanding what kind of lawsuit you would actually be filing, what you need to prove, and what the realistic outcomes look like depending on whether you are making a claim against someone else’s insurance company or your own. Those two situations are governed by different […]
Insurance Company Has Not Sent the Settlement Check: What You Can Do
You settled your car accident claim. There was an agreement, a number both sides accepted, and now you are waiting for a check that has not shown up. Days have passed, maybe weeks, and every time you follow up you get a variation of the same non-answer: it is being processed, it is in the […]
What Can Delay a Car Accident Settlement Check
You settled your case. You signed everything you were asked to sign. And now you are waiting, longer than you expected, without a clear explanation of why. This is one of the most common frustrations in personal injury law, and it is common largely because the sources of delay are varied, often invisible to the […]