Back injury settlements is a type of a financial claim prevalent in the United States and also in the United Kingdom. It is the process of a financial negotiation between the victim (person who sustained the back pain injury) and the party who is attributed as the cause of that injury, to determine how much the victim is entitled to as compensation for the back injury sustained.

To better understand back injury settlements, it is best to know what constitutes back injury and how it is acquired that makes the victim eligible to file for a financial claim.

A back injury is any type of damage, pain or affliction sustained on the back of a person. Back injuries may be temporary or permanent in state (completely damaged, altered or replaced bone structure on the back) or may be in the form of a recurring pain. A back injury may manifests in the form of a herniated disk, chronic back pain, chronic strain or sprain anywhere on the back, and non-spinal cord injury, among others.

A worker who frequently does heavy lifting and bending to perform his job (construction workers or heavy machine operators), athletes during games or practices, and persons in accidents (slip-and-fall accidents or vehicular accidents) often incur back injuries and are subjects of back injury settlements.

When the back injury is sustained in the workplace, the Workers Compensation (workcomp) handles the settlement filed by the employer against the company or its owners, while back injuries sustained in accidents are filed as personal injury settlements.

Back injury is a serious and debilitating circumstance, affecting all the aspects of the victim's life and his or her family.