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Structured Settlements Do Not Oscillate

By John Darer

Some apparently uneducated soul has posted a web page which states, in pertinent part, that "Structured settlements are essentially "oscillating" payments "prefabricated" to a consumer as a termination of a individualized trauma lawsuit".

Merriam Webster dictionary defines "oscillating" and "prefabricated" as follows:

Oscillating- to swing backward and forward like a pendulum; to vary above and below a mean value

Prefabricated-to produce artificially, to fabricate the parts at a factory so that construction consists mainly of assembling and uniting standardized parts

Comments:

Neither of the two terms applies to structured settlements.

The word "terminate" is not usually associated with lawsuit. The words "settlement", "dismissal", "withdrawal" and "discontinuance" are.

Do your research! Turning out drivel is not the way to earn credibility as a writer.

The beauty of wordsmithing may be lost if what you are saying is incorrect.

Full post as published by Structured Settlements 4Real on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).