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: Broward County Structured Settlements
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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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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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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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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”.
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It is highly unlikely that a judge would approve the sale of minor’s structured settlement payment rights for pennies on the dollar to make a discretionary purchase such as an ATV for a minor. Selling a structured settlement to pay for an ATV for a minor also makes no financial sense
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Advance Funding LLC is a Defendant in a new lawsuit filed in Bronx New York arising out of alleged fraudulent acts with respect to the Ponzi scheme run by Advance Funding and its principal, Dan Cevallos in the structured settlement factoring industry.
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If the payee entered into the structured settlement within 5 years prior to the date of the transfer agreement, then the transferee must provide notice to the payee’s attorney of record at the time the structured settlement was created California Code, Insurance Code – INS § 10139.5(f)(2)(L)