Structured settlements are types of compensation payouts that are specially designed to give a series of regular payments rather than one big one. This method of making compensation payments is very popular with the companies that are legally obliged to make them — whether they themselves accept liability or whether they are ordered by a court to make a payment.

If you have recently won compensation following an injury of some kind or other then you may be given two choices when it comes to getting your money. The traditional route here used to be the payment of a lump sum of cash and that option is still available. But, more recently, more and more compensation winners have opted to take their money in a structured settlement.