The large insurance policy will be a lawsuit magnet, no? In the case of a car accident the attornies will rarely go for anything but insurance money, that is where the deep pockets are and it can be very difficult to collect from the assetts of a private party.
When the Ca. governor before Schwarzenegger [man, when these democrats blow up a large economy and go out of office they get forgotten, do they not? I live in Ca and have not seen the guy's name in print for a long, long time, I can't even recall it right now]..... anyhow, personal revelations about politics aside... the Ca governorment changed some tax rules to make it difficult to sell real estate and leave the state. A friend of mine was moving an apartment building to a new escrow account every couple of months to keep from paying the taxes at one point!!
If you receive money in a trust, you can keep the trust going for ever. It's a pain maybe, you have to have tax accountability for the trust. I don't know if you can get money out of the trust easily however.