Legal Question in Personal Injury in Florida

Re: injury settlement check

It sounds perfectly right. All settlement funds are first properly deposited by an attorney into a trust account. The attorney needs to be certain that your settlement funds have cleared to make certain that he is not disbursing someone else's settlement to you.

Re: injury settlement check

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This seems entirely correct. When an attorney receives settlement proceeds, the check is made payable to the client and the attorney. Both parties have to sign the back of the check and it gets deposited for clearance in the attorney's trust account. When the attorney receives clear funds, the monies can then be disbursed to each party according to the agreement between the client and the attorney.

Scott R. Jay, Esq.