Financial Philosophy & Legal Decisions

The settlement check finally arrives sixteen months after the car accident that fractured your spine and upended your life—you deposit $127,000 after attorney fees, feeling a moment of validation that someone acknowledged your suffering and compensated your losses, yet within days a troubling awareness creeps in that nothing fundamental has actually changed despite receiving what … Read more

You sit in your attorney’s office three years after the accident that started everything, listening as she announces that you’ve finally won—the settlement exceeds your initial demand, the defendant’s insurance company capitulated completely, and by every measurable legal standard you achieved total victory in litigation that consumed over one thousand days of your existence—yet as … Read more