What happends if settlement becomes larger?
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About the only way a case can be reopened after you have agreed to settle is if you cannot agree with the other side's attorney or insurance company about settlement terms. When you reach a personal injury settlement, you need to sign a release before the other side will pay any settlement proceeds.Through settlement, the plaintiff (the person filing the lawsuit) agrees to give up the right to pursue any further legal action in connection with the accident or injury, in exchange for payment of an agreed-upon sum of money from the defendant or an insurance company.
Throughout human history there was a hard limit on settlement density, as walking distance influenced geography; people simply were unwilling to live or work farther than 5 miles (or 10 if they owned a horse) from the nearest town to obtain everyday basic goods and services. In Europe, centuries old settlements were surrounded by farmland and tended not to be wider than 30 minutes' walk from one end to the other, with wealthier people monopolizing the "town center", while poorer people lived on the town's outskirts or nearby countryside (the "sphere of influence"). With the advent of decentralization technologies (i.e., bicycles, trains, cars, etc.), American settlements reversed this trend before reaching their saturation point, with vast farmlands managed by homesteads located dozens of miles away from the nearest settlement; lower-income communities occupied the "center" as the middle-income and upper-income migrated into suburbia, and this created a phenomenon known as urban decay.
A settlement's population size, its geographic area, its status and the availability of services can all affect this hierarchy. Position in a settlement hierarchy can also depend on the sphere of influence. This is how far people will travel to use the services in the settlement: if people travel further the town becomes more important and ranks higher in the settlement hierarchy.