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: Buffalo Structured Settlement Investments
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Refactored Structured Settlements is used by some to unartfully describe investments in transferred structured settlement payment rights from other people’s structured settlements, when used as an alternative investment vehicle to a settling plaintiff.
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New Jersey P.L. 2022, CHAPTER 98, effective August 12, 2022, AN ACT concerning the “New Jersey Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act” and amending P.L.1991, c.208 has SERIOUS implications for NJ investors in structured settlement payment rights.
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Immediate Annuities.com is not accurate about Structured Settlement Receivables in referring to assigned structured settlement payment rights as an annuity or annuities. A structured settlement factoring transaction does not involve any transfer of annuity policies.The “annuities listed” as secondary market annuities are not annuities. They are receivables.
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NAIC warns of unlicensed legitimate Companies selling unregulated non-insurance products. Factored structured settlement receivables are an unregulated non-insurance product sold by legitimate companies as “Secondary Market Annuities”
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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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I guess crows don’t like to be “pigeonholed”. Can CrowFly, a Buffalo company that has no licenses be considered a financial institution? CrowFly LLC advertises on Google My Business that it is a Financial Institution. Is CrowFly LLC a financial institution, fintech platform, an exchange?
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Rising interest rates hurt structured settlement factoring originators like CrowFly. They cannot afford to get the pricing wrong on the originatons, because if interest rates move up and they’ve priced too low, they may not be able to move the paper to investors.
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A 1035 Exchange is not permitted into or out of an SMA. The term Secondary Market Annuity is a misleading label, often used by sellers of structured settlement payment rights as a marketing tactic to attract investors in acquired structured settlement receivables. It is not an annuity.
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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.
