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: Boca Raton Structured Settlement Investments
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Partial Summary Judgment granted to Investors (1) Investors are the owners of and have the right to receive payments arising from the Payment Streams; (2) Genex has no right, title,or interest in Keefer’ Payment Streams; (3) Genex had and has no right to withhold, sell, or reassign the Keefers’ Payment Streams.
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You or your US clients may be pitched investments in other people’s structured settlements using the false flag claim that they’re annuities. Structured settlement receivables aren’t annuities and bear risks to investors that may make them unsuitable for vulnerable retirees and personal injury victims.
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A structured settlement is not an annuity, A structured settlement obligation may be funded with an annuity but the structured settlement itself is not an annuity. This is a fundamental and important distinction for anyone seeking to invest in structured settlement payment rights.
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Structured settlement annuities cannot be bought and sold however, the right to receive structured settlement payments can be bought and sold. It’s a critical distinction for investors who may be misled into thinking they are buying an annuity with its associated protections.
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Life-contingent structured settlement payments are only payable if the Payee is alive on the date the payments are made. Buyers are therefore at substantial risk of not receiving these monies especially because if there is a long deferral period or payment duration
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It’s misleading because nobody can actually “buy structured settlements”. Structured settlements are a form of settlement not a product. For example a settlement can be resolved in consideration of a lump sum, periodic payments or a combination.. Structured settelments can be funded with an annuity.
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners implicitly stated in its Statutory Issue Paper 160 that acquired structured settlement payment rights are not an annuity. Investors beware!
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The focus should be on enforecable secondary marketplace standards regarding solicitation of structured settlement annuitants. Does the same or similar standard that applies to marketing to seniors apply here? I know I’ve been barking about this for years. But where are we?
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The apparent collapse of structured settlement factoring company Client First Settlement Funding has left structured settlement investors scrambling with some having faced delays in receiving due to the apparent failure to employ a back up servicing company.