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.
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Category: AIG Structured Settlement Class Action
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Ding Dong the Risk Lawsuit is Dead. Richard B. Risk, Jr, hitched up to a stud attorney, whose track record was promoted as if he was Seattle Slew, and failed like a wilted asparagus against AIG. See Ezell v Lexington Insurance Company et al.
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Payment of (structured settlement) brokers’ commissions from out of the money Lexington paid for the annuities does not belie the facts that Lexington paid the amounts it quoted and that appellants received exactly those specific annuity payments the settlement agreements had promised,
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Notwithstanding their lack of accounting for anti-rebating laws, Plaintiffs have selectively omitted in their prosecution certain large contributors to trial lawyer associations, who have made claims that undermine the plaintiffs’ arguments, so that they could paint their “mean monkey illusion”.
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Nice to see that a highly successful law firm as Beasley Allen has such a good relationship with the NSSTA and two or more members. Partners have not only spoke at this meeting but have also spoken on a radio show sponsored by one of the NSSTA member firms.
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If a qualified settlement fund is a trust under state law,as required by tax regulations, wouldn’t any income and gains generated by the investment of the assets in the trust be subject to tax on a state or federal level?
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FACT: Lead plaintiff Erica Biddings DID have a structured settlement broker of her own, Black Holcomb Smith & Associates. FACT: Lead plaintiff Erica Biddings DID choose her own structured settlement plan design and funding companies and AIG DID NOT object.
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Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly (a) isn’t dealing with a full deck of information about the lawsuit (b) didn’t devote sufficient time to understand the history of Ezell v Lexington insurance Company lawsuit and how a structured settlement works, or (c) is intellectually dishonest