Settlement Agreement

[iowahurtwithquestions]

Hello Everyone! I have question regarding Settlement Agreement. We settled my case out of court 8 weeks ago the day before we were suppose to go to trial and still have not been sent the final draft of my Settlement Agreement. The other-side seems to be dragging their feet? However, I trust my Attorney’s decision to just sit tight until they finally get around to sending the final draft. However, it would make sense to me that they must have a deadline they have to adhere too? Right? I mean you can’t settle in good faith then delay forever on paying benefits?

[hurt at work]

You are correct as when I had mediation before we left my lawyer set a date for everything to be settled by and to no surprise they missed that date by a week.But I hope he steps up soon as they will drag this on as long as they can all it will take is for Ur lawyer to call and ask whats going on and set a date then and he should 8 weeks is nuts.Good luck.

[1171]

the whole point of settlement is to get out of the court date.
once that was done the motivation drops.
I assume your atty is a work comp specialist and works with the opposing atty many times. If so trust your attys judgement. if not,......
the other side has a lot of approvals and signoffs; your atty only has you.
it's not the same process for both.
there is no time limit unless you put one.

if you want to get tuff you can tell your atty to withdraw from the settlement and go to trial.
put a time limit on it and put it in writing.
there is a slight chance that it may give him some leverage in getting the documents.
(if you have delays getting the documents it's very likely it'll take a while to get a check once the settlement is approved!)
trouble with that strategy is you have to follow thru and that may mean changing attys.

a legal clock runs in weeks and months--not minutes and hours.

[iowahurtwithquestions]

Amen 1171 to your last sentence! I will trust his judgement for a few more weeks. Thanks. I will keep you posted.