by John Darer® CLU ChFC MSSC CeFT® RSP CLTC
Plaintiffs are often asked to make life impacting financial decisions during a period of heightened stress
- Transition stress can impair the decision making process, perhaps even leading to a frozen state, or a combative state, where making a decision seems impossible.
- Where does that leave you if you are the plaintiff, the defense or plaintiff lawyer or a mediator, are in the middle of a mediation on a personal injury or wrongful death case, or having settled the personal injury or wrongful death case and trying to wrap things up?
- In some cases it may even lead to conflict between plaintiffs and their personal injury lawyers, despite the job the lawyers have done in obtaining a favorable recovery, not to mention the impact on accounts receivable from the resulting delay.
Understanding and managing transition stress should be an important consideration when a case is heading toward a possible settlement, even before settlement discussions begin at mediation or elsewhere
John Darer is a Certified Financial Transitionist What is A Certified Financial Transitionist? (CeFT) (4structures.com)
John Darer’s article Clients Need Help Planning Life Transitions was published in the June 9, 2014 issue of the Connecticut Law Tribune.
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Last updated December 10, 2025