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: Berkshire Hathaway Structured Settlements
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The Court should be alert to the fact that Berkshire offers its annuitants a discount rate of 6.5 % as part of its Annuitant Hardship Exchange. Peachtree’s numbers need to come in below that. Buyers of structured settlement payment rights should not be subject to efforts to avoid the truth.
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Structured settlement secondary market attacks on Berkshire Hathaway’s Hardship Exchange Program are generally rooted in self-serving distorted logic explained here. They covet the “herds of prey” like predators on the Serengeti Plain, it’s no wonder that glasses of “whine” have been raised by buyers.
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The structured settlement research is intended to learn the depth at which annuitants of these companies are being targeted by structured settlement factoring companies with deals that are more expensive than that offered by hardship programs offers by annuity issuers themselves.
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It is notable that Novation Funding used a different DBA for each of its structured settlement transfer petitions with Plude in Connecticut. One wonders how many other structured settlement annuity issuers, owners or qualified assignees intervene in structured settlement transfers?
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Structured settlement factoring transactions are generally bad for structured settlement payees. In addition to giving up security, most payees sacrifice substantial economic value. It should be the financing of last resort for structured settlement payees. Berkshire Hathaway does the right thing.
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In 2026, several life insurance companies provide structured settlement annuities for personal injury and related claims in New York City and surrounding counties. Key issuers include Metropolitan Life, New York Life, and Prudential. Only three companies offer annuities for structured judgments under specific legal articles due to strict provisions.
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The teaser on the link said “Warren Buffett Discuss Structured Settlement Purchases”. In fact, Mr. Buffett was discussing the SALE of annuities to support new structured settlements, as I reported last week.
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The words “certain” and “guaranteed” are terms used in settlement documents to describe payment obligations in a settlement agreement and in structured settlement annuities and other income annuities. Both are often used in a way that suggests the terms are synonymous, but are they?
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Berkshire Hathaway was rated #4 most admired company in the world in the FORTUNE 2016 survey. Berkshire Hathaway issues structured settlement annuities through subsidiaries Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company of NB, First Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company, in New York and Periodic Payment Reinsurance through National Indemnity Company.
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The parents of several structured settlement annuity issuers are listed in the top 20 of the world’s largest insurance companies compiled by A.M. Best in its February 2015 issue of Best’s Review.