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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Now is the time to make good use of stuctured settlements and build enduring guaranteeed income streams.Compelling yields in Excess of 5% are possible on intermediate and long term cash flows. Why take risk when you don’t have to?
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Pacific Life offers competitively priced fixed structured settlement annuities, index linked structured settlement annuities (ILAPA) and has a variable structured settlement annuity in development. Pacific Life & Annuity Company also issues structured judgment annuities in New York cases.
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Today the A++(Superior) A.M. Best rated USAA Life insurance Company is a highly respected issuer of structured settlement annuities for a wide spectrum of claimants, particularly competive for long duration cash flows .
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An annuity is not a structured settlement. For that matter a structured settlement is not an annuity. A structured settlement can be funded with an annuity. Taking a payment plan for casino winnings is not a structured settlement. What Annuity.org says is nonsense.
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Annuity.org is criticized for using details from State Life & Health Guaranty Associations to entice consumers into purchasing annuities. Despite having licensed agents like Chris Magnussen, their advertising approach undermines state laws that prohibit using such associations for solicitation. Ethical concerns arise regarding transparency in insurance practices.
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Structured settlement receivables are NOT annuities and NOT eligible for a 1035 exchange. Holders of retirement annuities may be in for a nasty surprise if they liquidate tax deferred annuities to buy “secondary market annuities”.. It could mean hundreds of thousands in taxes/penalties.. Yuck!
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You do not need to name an annuity beneficiary in your will because all it will do is delay the payment of proceeds while the Estate of the decedent is probated. Naming a beneficiary with the annuity issuer results in much faster and less costly distributions following the death of the annuitant payee.
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American General has recently introduced a number of periodic payment innovations to the structured settlement market Interest Rate Linked Structured Settlements (IRLSS) and Non Qualified Assignment Facility with Domestic Assignment Company and Ability to Defer
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By thinking smart, Bobby Bonilla is still enjoying the deferred payment ride. That’s all that matters. You may not be an athlete playing for a major league team, but you can enjoy stable income generated by an annuity from a quality life insurance company,.