The LTD 24-Month Cliff: Any-Occupation and SSDI Offsets
Approved disability benefits often stop right at month 24, when the definition of 'disabled' quietly gets much harder to meet. Here's how that trap works.
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Lost Earning Capacity
When an injury changes what you can earn for the rest of your working life. Frequently the largest single component of a serious claim.
14 guides spanning 4 claim types: Settlement Values Insurance Wrongful Death Settlement Money
Guides tagged Lost Earning Capacity
Long-Term Disability Claims: Why ERISA Changes Everything
Most employer disability plans are governed by a federal law with no jury trial, no bad-faith damages, and a review often stacked against you from the start.
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Life Care Plans: Pricing a Lifetime of Future Care
A catastrophic injury settlement often turns on one document projecting decades of future costs — and whether its methodology survives a Daubert challenge.
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Is Your Injury Settlement Marital Property in a Divorce?
Most states split a settlement by what it actually compensates, not by whose name is on the check — and a joint bank account can undo that protection.
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Wrongful Death of a Child: Why the Damages Math Is Different
There's no lost paycheck to project when the person who died was a child — so these claims are valued on a completely different set of losses.
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CRPS & Chronic Pain Claims: Why They're Fought So Hard
Complex regional pain syndrome often follows a minor-looking injury and becomes permanent. What proves it, and why insurers contest these claims aggressively.
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Vision & Hearing Loss Settlements: Sensory Injury Claims
Losing an eye or your hearing is permanent, measurable and often underpaid. What drives value in sensory loss claims, and the defenses insurers reach for.
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Amputation Settlement Amounts: Prosthetics & Lifetime Cost (2026)
Amputation settlement ranges by limb and level, why prosthetic replacement cycles drive the number, and what phantom pain and revision surgery add.
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Knee Injury Settlement Amounts: Meniscus, ACL & Replacement (2026)
What knee claims settle for by diagnosis: meniscus tears, ACL ruptures and replacement, and why degenerative findings are used against you.
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Shoulder Injury Settlement Amounts: Rotator Cuff & Labral Tears
What shoulder claims settle for: rotator cuff and labral tear values by treatment, and why insurers blame age-related degeneration for the tear.
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Spinal Cord Injury Settlements: How Catastrophic Claims Are Valued
How spinal cord injury claims reach seven and eight figures: why the life-care plan drives the number, and why insurance is the real constraint.
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Traumatic Brain Injury Settlement Value: Concussion to Severe TBI
How TBI claims are valued, why mild brain injuries are hardest to prove and most often underpaid, and which testing documents an invisible injury.
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Wrongful Death & Drunk Driving: Dram Shop Claims Explained
How wrongful death claims work against a drunk driver, when a bar or store can also be liable under dram shop laws, and how punitive damages change the value.
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Wrongful Death Settlement Amounts: How Claims Are Valued (2026)
How wrongful death claims are valued: who may file, how lost future income is calculated, the separate survival action, and the deadlines involved.
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