Imagine lying awake at three in the morning wrestling with a decision that has consumed you for months since the accident that left you with chronic pain and medical bills you cannot pay, caught between two voices in your head that seem equally compelling yet completely incompatible as one voice insists that you deserve compensation … Read more
Your attorney calls with settlement news that should feel like victory—the insurance company just offered $85,000 to resolve your case, substantially more than their previous $65,000 proposal and reasonably close to your attorney’s $95,000 demand—yet instead of relief, you feel unexpected paralysis as your mind races through contradictory thoughts: maybe they’d go higher if you … Read more
Your personal injury attorney estimates eighteen months until settlement—a timeline that feels abstractly distant until you apply basic economic thinking and calculate that eighteen months equals approximately 540 days, 13,000 waking hours, or roughly 2,500 hours of productive cognitive capacity after accounting for sleep, basic life maintenance, and reduced mental efficiency from litigation stress, forcing … Read more