Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026
Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
recent posts
- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
- Canonical: Non‑Qualified Assignment (NQA)
- ⭐ THE 18–25 GUIDE TO STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS
about
Category: AIG Bail Out 2008 | Contemporaneous Observations
-
Kevin Van Allen, an attorney, criticized structured settlements involving AIG, suggesting they disadvantage clients. However, this claim overlooks factual details, such as AIG’s role as a qualified assignment company and protections under New York law. While risks exist, structured settlements generally benefit both parties. AIG has since restructured as Corebridge Financial.
-
With respect to AIG structured settlements, time has shown that the only financial losers were those who sold their structured settlement payment rights at a discount, succumbing to fearmongering vulture-like behavior of certain structured settlement purchasers in 2008-2009
-
No AIG strctured settlement annuity issuer received a bailout. Neither American General Life Insurance Company, American International Life Assurance Company of NY(now United States Life Insurance Company in the City of NY) received a bailout. Characterizing it otherwise is total BS.
-
By the end of 2012, billions of bailout dollars had been paid back to the government and the AIG brand is back. Here is a video released by AIG in conjunction with the announcement about the return to the AIG brand
-
September 9, 2012 The United States Treasury will sell $18 billion of AIG stock and thereby reduce its stake in the insurer to less than 50%. In early 2011 the stake was as high as 92%.
-
The AIG nationalization, initially criticized as a significant failure, is now considered a success, according to a Washington Post opinion piece by Charles Lane. The government may soon become a minority shareholder. The article is relevant for those with concerns about AIG-related structured settlements and insurance companies.
-
AIG’s re-branding is good for structured settlements. . Structured settlement annuitants with AIG subsidiary companies were paid 100% of their payments throughout the financial crisis and re-branding to AIG demonstrates a high level of confidence by senior management, backed by marketing research.
-
AIG’s operating companies were re-branded in 2009, but the AIG brand is back, with good reason- The good will that 90 years in business brings you and crisis management. Time will tell if it proves to be as legendary as JNJ’s Tylenol story, but it will be a Business School case study for many years…
-
The Executive Life Insurance Company of NY structured settlement annuitant described her fruitless efforts to contact the Life Insurance Guaranty Corporation of New York (“LIGCNY”) for info. While not good, it does not mean that one should act prematurely, and perhaps foolishly, without all the info..
-
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) said September 30th that they still haven’t completed their study of which insurance companies are global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) and they cannot decide whether they should face extra capital rules until that work is complete.