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: 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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CSSC stands for Certified Structured Settlement Consultant. A CSSC holder is expected to have acquired the essential knowledge necessary for success the structured settlement field, having completed over 60 hours of study and passed a comprehensive examination.
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In announcing a new version of a seminal text, the National Structured Settlements Trade Association states that a professional designation IT awards is “offered at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business” when it is merely hosted at the University (see else where in NSSTA website “By hosting the NSSTA CSSC Program at Notre Dame…”).…
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Patrick Hindert’s latest pedantic emission on Business Standards and Practices-2 attacks the NSSTA Certified Structured Settlement Consultant certification hosted at University of Notre. He states: “Advanced training” for those structured settlement broker/consultant/agents who are members of NSSTA (“America’s largest association of structured settlement professionals”) may include a one-time one weekend “certification” program (CSSC) at the…
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O’Donnell’s Oxford credential puffery was eerily familiar to some members of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association who felt that 4 days in the vicinity of “Touchdown Jesus” was enough to make them one of the “The Fighting Irish” or part of its $90,000 ,Executive MBA program at Notre Dame
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Members of the industry, NSSTA and the Univ. of Notre Dame have expressed concerns regarding the way CSSC designations are listed on bios of structured settlement brokers. Notre Dame does not have a CSSC program. The CSSC designation is offered by NSSTA in cooperation with the Notre Dame’s Executive Education Department.
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The Los Angeles Lawyer sure knows how to make a “good first impression”. I’ve received 2 emails from them today. In each they are trying to hock structured settlement consultants to advertise in a March 2010 Los Angeles Lawyer publication about cashing in your structured settlement
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Lighten Up! We Make No Apologies For Exposing Funny Typos, Laziness or Stuff That Is Downright Wrong
Every now and then I receive a call or email from a structured settlement industry colleague, mommy blogger, or reporter, who has been the subject of a post. As one can imagine such calls involve someone with an otherwise normal sense of humor that appears to be impaired in the area of “self deprecating wit”.…
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Oregon law seems to eliminates the legal use of the CSSC designation. See.Section 836-080-0160 of Trade Practice rules from the Insurance Division of the State of Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services entitled “Use of Certifications or Professional Designations by Insurance Producers”
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‘ll let the readers chew over all the evidence laid out against the NSSTA CSSC credential inflators and decide if it’s a case of creative exaggeration, outright fabrication, or something even shadier.
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In a long awaited response to member concerns expressed in persistent communications stretching over several years, the National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA) posted a web page about “Promoting the CSSC”, a settlement industry professional certification program that it administers. Response to Unfortunate Credential Puffery The page came about after conversations between officials at the University of…