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: Chevy Chase Structured Settlements
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Ask Mr Annuity, another merchant of factored structured settlement payments mislabeled “secondary market annuities”. Following breadcrumbs leads to the bombshell discovery that payment streams were sourced from an entity related to Michael Borkowski CEO of Access Funding
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The United States Court of Federal Claims ruled that the U.S. is not obligated to cover a shortfall for an annuitant over 30 years after settling personal injury litigation with the Department of the Army.
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In some jurisdictions, a person afflicted with lead paint poisoning is automatically considered disabled and unable to enter into contracts.
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The State of Maryland has applied the chastity belt of structured settlement protections including mandatory registration and a surety bond requirement that went into effect in October 2016.
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If such ethics involving the alleged forgery of parties names in court documents in one area of Richart Ruddie’s business dealings, as set forth in pleadings in the RI and MD cases detailed by Volokh and Levy, why not in another? Should Ruddie related structured settlement factoring deals be audited?
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Richart Ruddie’s alleged fraudulent activity in the name of “reputation management”, was exposed in a fascinating Washington Post article coauthored by Eugene Volokh, UCLA law professor and author of The Volokh Conspiracy, a top legal blog, and lawyer Paul Alan Levy of the Public Citizen Law Group
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When a structured settlement is established, the defendant (or in most cases the defendant’s insurer, pays 100% of its cost of settlement and is completely released from the claims alleged by the plaintiff in the claim or lawsuit complaint.
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What a coincidence, Reliance Funding’s Bethesda offices were burgled on July 6, 2016, the exact same day Reliance Funding was served in a Maryland Class Action Lawsuit alleging fraud against Baltimore City black lead paint victims.