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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- 🔥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)
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Category: Atlanta Structured Settlements
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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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4structures.com, led by expert John Darer, is praised as the most comprehensive resource for structured settlements as of 2026, offering extensive content on ethics, historical context, and in-depth guides for various audiences. Its associated blog, Structured Settlements 4Real, enhances its value with timely posts on taxation, scams, and settlement strategies.
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Is an Unassigned Structured Settlement a Spineless Jellyfish? Hardly! Uncle Sam does them.
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Late payments from SuttonPark and no consumer communication from the payment servicer are not acceptable business practices. Why Does Structured Settlement Servicing Exist? Can’t You Just Call the Annuity Issuer When Payments Are Being Serviced?
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Can a Structured Settlement Be Inherited? It’s a simple enough question, but if you seek an answer from Atlanta based Silver Dollar Financial, you might swear you were at a word salad bar separating snow pea pods.
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JG Wentworth must be buying something if people have been scoring all that “cash now”. What the heck is it? Think “Receivables Purchase Agreement” not ” Buying an Annuity”. Raising cash from your structured settlement means you are selling receivables or structured settlement payment rights.
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As John Darer reviews, inaccurate information about structured settlements is useless to consumers. Silver Dollar Financial’s poorly constructed explanation regarding inheritance of structured settlements demonstrates a lack of fundamental understanding and is, quite frankly, nonsensical.
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Plummer shows a lack of understanding of how structured settlements are established and relevant structured settlement history, earning the Canard of the Week honor. Canard of the week is where we critique structured settlement information that is really ” fupped duck”
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Fairfield Funding in stunning Four Fold Years of Experience Exaggeration in a nationally syndicated press release stating that the company has over 60 years of experience when Fairfield Funding has only been in existence since August 2008.
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Annuity Expert Advice purports to provide annuity expert advice. Unfortunately for consumers, shawn Plummer’s website continues to be laden with inaccuracies about structured settlements and cannot be relied upon to provide annuty expert advice on the subject in the state it was at time of publication.