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
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- 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: Certified Structured Settlement Consultant (CSSC) NSSTA
Certified Structured Settlement Consultant (CSSC) is an NSSTA professional certification program in conjunction with the Macombs school at the University of Texas at Austin. The NSSTA CSSC program which which is updated annually, provides a comprehensive understanding of structured settlements, combining academic rigor and perspective with the latest developments impacting the industry, including:
- Settlement Planning and Needs-Based Negotiation
- Business Ethics
- Federal tax law overview and industry applications
- Fixed income
- Trusts- Special Needs and Medical Reversionary Trusts
- Medicare Set-Aside accounts
- Negotiation strategies
- Settlement documentation
- Claim valuations
- Actual industry case studies
- Tort law, guardianship fundamentals, state and federal jurisdiction issues from a litigant’s perspective, and laws which impact NSSTA members
- Insurance Claims Practices
- Loss reserving
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John Darer reviews the Certified Structured Settlement Consultant (CSSC) designation, earned by completing a program by the National Structured Settlements Trade Association and the University of Texas at Austin. The CSSC program, established in 1994, requires 60+ hours of study, work experience, and passing an exam, ensuring expertise in structured settlements.
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John Darer® of 4structures.com LLC, is one of only two structured settlement and settlement planning experts to earn the CeFT® in the United States. Certified Financial Transitionist ups the game for settlement advisers with an adaptive business model that focuses on the personal side of money
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Structured settlements have received bipartisan support from Congress for over 35 years, a testament to perceived value of structured settlements by legislators.
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Does taking a professional designation course sponsored by a trade association count as attending the University of Notre Dame? Apparently a structured settlement broker holds himself out in this manner, in contravention to the facts about the designation posted on his trade association’s website.
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Structured settlement consultants who continue to cite an industry certification program (that DID NOT require matriculation at the University of Notre Dame) as if they attended the University of Notre Dame,or University of Texas at Austin (post Pandemic) are misleading.
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According to certain folks’ websites and/or LinkedIn profiles they completed their CSSC at “Notre Dame University”, which is located in Zouk Mosbeh Lebanon. There’s also a campus in Shouf, which was the scene of a lovely Christmas recital on December 20, 2012. Details! Details! Details!
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The structured settlement watchdog applauds the efforts of the NSSTA and the members of its CSSC committee to upgrade the program. In a dynamic field, that is a subset of multiple dynamic fields, continuing education is an important part of a structured settlement consultant staying on top of his or her game, Mandatory CE is…
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University of Notre Dame is South Bend, Indiana. Notre Dame University is in Zouk Mosbeh Lebanon. One hosted the Certified Structured Settlement Consultant educational program over 4 days and the other doesn’t. The National Structured Settlements Trade Association awards the designation.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has expanded the CFP Board of Standards' power to discipline advisors now that it has made it clear that Registered Investment Advisers (RIA) and broker-dealers can provide client information to the board without violating a privacy rule and facing an SEC enforcement action. Advisors often have cited Regulation S-P, a federal…