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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Not all is positive about the Athene integration with Aviva USA, ALL of the Aviva sales literature, which would have had to have been filed with insurance regulators, and the CMA issued contracts expressly stated that the CMA was absolute, unconditional, present and continuing. Athene said its gone.
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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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Aviva/Athene structured settlement lawsuit arose after it was discovered in 2014 that the Capital Maintenance Agreement instrumental to Aviva Life selling more than $1 billion in premium and over 4,200 structured settlement annuities was unilaterally terminated without notice to annuitants
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Someday the acquisition by Athene of Aviva USA, including Aviva’s structured settlement book, will make a good business school or law school case study. How did it go wrong and how should they have done things ? Let me count the ways.