So Joe's lawyer threw out some numbers last month and honestly it made my head spin a little. We're trying to figure out if we should even be hoping for certain amounts or if that's just not how this works.
I taught high school for 32 years and I can tell you I'm way better at understanding a syllabus than a settlement breakdown, so bear with me here. Is there like an average that people are actually getting, or does it depend so much on the case that there's really no such thing as average?
I know it matters whether it's a lawsuit versus a trust fund claim, and whether he's still working (he's not, he's on disability now), and how bad the exposure was. His exposure was at a shipyard in Jacksonville back in the 70s and 80s, pretty clear cut stuff. But I'm seeing numbers online that range from like... everything. Which tells me nothing.
Has anyone here actually gotten a settlement and are you comfortable sharing what that looked like? Or even just the ballpark? I'm not asking for exact figures if that feels weird, just trying to get a realistic sense of whether we're looking at something that helps us or something that... I don't know, actually makes a difference for what comes next.
I'm asking because we need to figure out some stuff about treatment options and where we can afford to go, and honestly it would help to know what we're working with.