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: Banks in Financial Crisis
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The evidence shows that life insurers issuing structured annuities have had no failures during the same time period. Life insurers on the whole have stood the test of time. Banks crushed insurers with 100 Bank failures to 0 life insurer issuing structured settlement annuity failures..
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Major settlement purchasers and prominent advertisers depend on institutional financing from European banks the same entities fretting over the “Greeced PIIGS.”
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Banks fail more than life insurance companies that issue structured settlement annuities. It was a absolute rout in 2010 118-0
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by John D. Darer CLU ChFC CSSC RSP The FDIC shut down of $25B 346 branch Colonial BancGroup, Inc. on Friday along with another bank brings the total bank failures in 2009 to 74. Colonial Branches will reopen as branches of BB&T with a total cost to FDIC of $2.8B. During the same time period no…
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This news illustrates the potential tin cup domino effect on our nation’s financial institutions. There are reasons why most state insurance laws prohibit the use of state guaranty funds in a sales situation and you are looking at one of them from the banking parallel.
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It had to happen eventually. The closing of a Florida bank and 6 others on Friday by the FDIC brought this year's number of bank failures to 106 . There have been a total of 130 failures since the beginning of 2008. Even so the number of failures has not reached the number of failures…
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EDIE the Estimator, is an FDIC online service that can calculate your FDIC insurance coverage for each FDIC-insured bank where you have deposit accounts. EDIE lets you know in a printable report for each bank whether your deposits are within or exceed coverage limits so that you can plan accordingly.
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On a day when AIG stock jumped 30% this sobering news came out of the banking sector: "With bank failures rising, the FDIC fund fell 20 percent to $10.4 billion in the second quarter as U.S. banks lost $3.7 billion". -Associated Press report See Interview with FDIC Chairperson Sheila Bair: http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/1228675704/code/cnbcplayershare Then came this :1,000…
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A significant number of banks failed during the 2008-2009 financial crisis compared to life insurers (which issue structured settlement annuities) which already have significant reserving requirements and asset/liability matching standards that must be certified annually to state insurance departments, or Department of Financial Services