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.
recent posts
- Daily Rates Are Often an Important Cost Driver of Structured Settlements
- 🔥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: Broward County Structured Settlements
Structured Settlements in Broward County, FL is a collection of blogs, articles, and commentary on structured settlements by structured settlement expert John Darer CLU, ChFC, MSSC, CeFT, RSP, CLTC. The content is designed for personal injury lawyers practicing in or serving Broward County, as well as Broward County residents involved in lawsuits for personal injury, wrongful death, or medical malpractice, employment, construction defects, or sensitive claims who are seeking settlement planning advice and information.
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If you’ve got a structured settlement, avoid loony “fortune cookie” mailers claiming you have unclaimed funds. They toss around phrases like “Structured Settlement,” “Client Relations Dept,” and “Immediate Verification Required,” while flashing 888-556-2740 like it’s a winning lottery ticket.
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Structured Settlement Watchdog critiques 123 Lump Sum, a structured settlement factoring company, for incorrectly stating that a defendant in a civil suit is guilty rather than liable. The company, which seeks to buy structured settlement payment rights for less, is criticized for misleading consumers about the nature of structured settlements.
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Independent Life Insurance Company highlights its value proposition to attorneys, insurers, plaintiffs and the like in anew brochure. Independent, a structured settlement only company offers solutions for both qualfied and non qualified structured settlements.
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Even with all the value that merely pennies on the dollar will buy, Black Square Financial promotes the following falsehoods (1) Implication that you can restructure an existing structured settlement. (2) Statement that you can take control of a policy (that you do not own). (3) ” Structure your policy”
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The hammer is coming down on the possibility of any investors in structured settlement receivables (factored structured settlement payment rights), deriving any benefit from insolvency protections designed to protect buyers and beneficiaries of legitimate annuities and life insurance.
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Do you own a virgin structured settlement? Have you been solicited by a structured settlement buyer, seeking to buy your structured settlement payments before the structured settlement annuity was even issued or soon after it was issued?
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When promoting Structured MSA, the devil is in the details. A Structured MSA has tremendous benefits, but a mural of “scary turkeys” known as “speedy thieves” in the scientific community, is not exactly what I would have in mind to promote them.
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Black Square Financial falsely represents to structured settlement annuitants that “you can take control of your policy”. That’s a Prime Fib, with a loaded “Faked Potato” and frazzled bunyans. How can you control something that you don’t own?
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Patriot Settlement Resources appears to be soliciting investors in structured settlement payment rights and mispresenting them as annuities.
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Efforts to vacate orders in forum shopped structured settlement factoring cases run into obstacles because a certain defense to be raised by the factoring company inducers’ lawyers is that the annuitant was complicit in the fraud and therefore has “unclean hands”.