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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Thomas Burgess Hamlin, CEO of Somerset, has settled the FINRA claim brought by retiree Barry Cooper over factored structured settlement payments (which at the time of sale were marketed to investors as “secondary market annuities”. Payments have been suspended since Jan 2018).
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Accredited investors are NOT buying an existing structured settlement annuity because the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, an authority, opined in Statutory Issue Paper 160 that factored structured settlement payment streams are neither annuities nor insurance products
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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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If it wasn’t out there it is now. Insurance companies ARE buying structured settlement payment rights in the secondary market through securitizations of portfolios like the one that Sola referred to for $252 million that included both structured settlement and annuity backed receivables.
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Pay attention to pleadings in ongoing Genex Capital v Genex Capital Investors Arizona litigation that continues to erode what little credibility is left of the terms “secondary market annuity” and “secondary market annuities”. Retirees should pay attention, so should, insurers, settlement planners,financial planners and their clients.