Workers’ compensation lawyers above all should be the best person to advise you on what the value of, um, a settlement would be in your particular case. In workers’ compensation, um, cases, value doesn’t necessarily turn on how badly you were injured—unfortunately, uh—because again, there’s no pain and suffering or non-economic damages that come into play when you’re valuing personal injury or medical malpractice cases.

What you’re looking at primarily in workers’ compensation cases is how much a week you receive in your benefit. And, you know, if that is a low amount, then valuing the case in terms of how long you might collect or what the six-year gate looks like value-wise, um, that’s obviously gonna be lower just because your average weekly wage is lower than someone else’s. Someone else may have a higher average weekly wage, may not be as badly hurt, and their case may settle for more than yours, uh—or vice versa.

So, uh, in terms of getting a better settlement, your lawyer is obviously the best person to do that. Um, and there are different ways and different tactics we use to negotiate and to drive settlement value. At the end of the day, it’s important to have a lawyer who’s honest with you about value and can guide you through the questions you have to ask yourself before you can, um, intelligently accept a settlement offer.