by Structured Settlement Watchdog®
The Certified Structured Settlement Consultant certificate makes it impossible to twist words or blow hot air—no wiggle room for fluff here!
"The National Structured Settlement Trade Association, in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, has awarded (state your name) the title of Certified Structured Settlement Consultant. This designation recognizes the successful completion of the required course of study and a comprehensive examination". -excerpt from actual CSSC completion certificateDownload CSSC completion certificate circa October 2007
Now let's get this straight!
- The NSSTA logo is front and center on the certificate, clearly stating its designation—not anything to do with the University of Notre Dame.
- Ha! Redacting the CSSC designee’s name almost makes it look like Notre Dame blessed NSSTA itself.
- Seriously, who could confuse the Lebanese Notre Dame (Notre Dame University) after actually reading the certificate?
- It’s clearly a designation, not an Executive MBA or postgraduate course as some have wildly exaggerated.
- And let’s not forget—the check for the course goes to NSSTA, not Notre Dame!
I'll let the readers chew over all the evidence laid out against the credential inflators and decide if it's a case of creative exaggeration, outright fabrication, or something even shadier.
The NSSTA Bylaws state:
Article II. The Board of Directors shall have authority and shall be responsible for the supervision, control and direction of the Association. Implicit in this is the fact that the NSSTA Board of Directors has knowledge of a member of its board of directors who is not following published guidelines on the CSSC and is doing nothing visible about it. The word supervision is the key here.
Article VI Permits a Board of Director to be removed for good cause. Is continuing to decouple NSSTA from a professional credential and holding this out to the public, two months after the board on which he serves voted on the guidelines to promote the CSSC, sufficient cause to call for the removal of Jim Logan? This author opines that Logan should be suspended from the NSSTA board until he complies.
Principal VI of the NSSTA Code of Ethics calls for compliance with state and local laws. Included in those laws are truth in advertising laws.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Although the author is a member of NSSTA, the views expressed above reflect his personal and independent opinion based on the content of this and previous posts, as well as his interpretation of the NSSTA bylaws, code of ethics, state insurance regulations, and Federal truth-in-advertising laws. The author is not a lawyer, and readers are encouraged to form their own conclusions.
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