Are car accident settlements public record? Well, in California there isn't a specific database or anywhere where these car accident settlements get uploaded.

There are places where people will self report car accident verdicts. Sometimes it's reported in newspapers, sometimes it's on websites.

There are some websites that act as a database, for example, verdict search. Sometimes they keep track of settlements as well, so you may be able to look it up there.

But there isn't a public database that is operated by the government that you can do a public records request to just get information about car settlement.

So if you know somebody that had a car accident settlement and you were just curious how much they got, there isn't a place that you could go just to look it up. It's usually private information unless they made it public somewhere.