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: Allendale County Structured Settlements
Allendale County Structured Settlements information and commentary from stuctured settlement expert John Darer CLU ChFC MSSC CeFT RSP CLTC that may be of interest to Allendale County SC personal injury lawyers and residents of Allendale, Fairfax, Snelling, Kline, Sycamore in South Carolina with personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death claims
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If you’re receiving lifetime annuity payments or life contingent structured settlement payments, are you better off selling the structured settlement payment rights, or doing nothing and keep on receiving the guaranteed payments for life.
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MetLife has launched the Non-Qualified Assignment Flex Agreement (NQA-FA), providing enhanced payment flexibility not restricted by IRC 72(u). This product supports deferred payments, lump sums, and annual increases, allowing for customization. It serves as a settlement tool for non-physical injury claims, offering reliability and strong repayment features.
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Common issues related to structured settlement quotes and funding which should be of interest to plaintiff attorneys, plaintiffs, insurance adjusters, defense attorneys and other interested parties or stakeholders in the structured settlement process across the United States
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According to Weissman’s latest report, Ryan Blank brought Arthur Badger Jr. to Washington D.C. and “lavishly entertained” him in an effort to persuade Badger to sell his minor daughters’ structured settlement payments, worth millions, for pennies on the dollar to Blank entities.
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With all the good work that the South Carolina legislature is now doing and working on to create the state of the art Structured Settlement Protection law, an April 16, 2023 opinion piece by the Editorial Staff of The Post and Courier was reckless.
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“This is a much needed step to ensure that our most vulnerable South Carolinians are no longer preyed upon by unscrupulous flim-flam artists,” South Carolina governor Henry McMaster said upon signing the upgraded structured settlement protection bill into law on May 16, 2023.
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Sellers explain why they regret those decisions years later. One said selling his stuctured settlement was “the biggest regret of his life”. tt’s unwise to proceed without independent professional advice, even if its not mandatory in your state
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Requiring structured settlement transfer petitions to be heard in the same court where the Structured Settlement was established makes sense as does mandating Independent Professional Advice and/or Neutral Guardians in South Carolina, and should not be limited to attorneys checking a box..
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Grace was preyed on by factoring gluttons. The 1st factoring deal was August 1 2018, the 2nd on August 8, 2018, the 3rd on September 18, 2018, the 17thl in November 2021! 3 deals in 5 weeks and 17 structured settlement factoring transactions for someone with a 1st percentile IQ over 3 years.
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In 2 separate filings made in December 2016, made with Novation and JG Wentworth in the same court 13 days apart, one wonders if Rainey indeed received structured settlement cash advances and then purposefully got the deals dismissed, as they were January 11, 2017 and January 20, 2017