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: Allstate International Assignments Ltd.NQA
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When you enter into a long term structured settlement, it can unsettling to later learn that the insurer has been sold or the product line discontinued. How insurers manage change speaks volumes. Examples of divestitures and acquisitions of structured settlement product lines, or actual insurers.
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Structured settlements are a haven in turbulent times. People with structured settlements receive stable, secure guaranteed structured settlement payments that are backed by large well capitalized insurance companies
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Offshore assignment company assumes future periodic payment obligations from qualified settlement funds (or defendants ) and funds the obligations to plaintiffs and lawyers, using a “patchwork quilt” of structured settlement receivables in lieu of structured settlements annuities.
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John Griffiths was the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Aviva and Athene. Athene agreed to provide annuitants a CMA. Some annuitants received a modest financial recovery. A needless, unfortunate episode for the insurers, underscoring the need to be vigilant when insurers transition, or runoff their product lines.
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If there is nothing wrong with Allstate and John Hancock structured annuities, then why is settlement purchaser SSQ targeting structured settlement annuitants with those companies through national syndicated press releases that help is still available”?
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If you have an Allstate structured settlement and “you need cash now”, you will still be able deal with the company’s AFEN unit after the company stops taking in new structured settlement annuity business, according to an Allstate official responding to my question .
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If you have a structured settlement annuity or funding agreement with Allstate Life Insurance Company or Allstate Life Insurance Company of New York don’t panic, Allstate IS NOT going out of business and will continue to service your accounts. It is just not taking new structured annuity business.
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A genuine alternative financial solution to athletes and celebrities. It’s called Structured Celebrity Endorsement Fees. If you, or your client, seek safe, secure customizable income streams that are not laden with fees and are backed by a Fortune 100 size insurance company (ironically based in Northbrook) then take a few minutes to watch this video
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Allstate Life Insurance Company has taken a leadership position in the battle against high teen structured settlement factoring discount rates by lowering the discount rate it charges its structured settlement annuitants for the liquidity feature, to 8%.
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If you are (or our your client is) having a good year financially and anticipate endorsement fees that only add to this year’s tax bill singers/songwriters, actors/ actresses, athletes and other famous endorsers can benefit from structured celebrity endorsement fees.