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Settlement matter and physical injury due to emotional distress issue

Question

We have a settlement matter where the Settlement Agreement states payment for, "physical injury due to emotional distress". All my research I did to create the guidelines I use for determining reportable damages do not cover physical injury due to emotional distress, just physical (personal) injury (reportable) or emotional distress due to physical injury (reportable). Strict emotional distress would be non reportable. What is your opinion on "physical injury due to emotional distress"? Reportable? For me I am struggling with whether in this case we factor in what caused the physical injury or not. If we do not, then it becomes a non-reportable payment.

Answer

It appears you may be somewhat confused about what is reportable and what is not followed by the fact you do truly have a unique classification for the damages in question.

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