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
- Daily Rates Are Often an Important Cost Driver of Structured Settlements
- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- 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: Chicago Illinois Structured Settlements
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Publicity of the specifics of the structure, to benefit the attorney/ law firm marketing, does no service to the attorney’s infant client. Any attorney/law firm that aids the publication of the specifics of an infant’s settlement exposes the minor to inevitable harassment when the cash now vultures circle at age 18
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The United States Attorney (or his designee) involved in any settlement negotiations shall have the exclusive authority to select an annuity broker from the list of such brokers established by the Attorney General, provided that all documents related to any settlement comply with DOJ requirements,
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Keep in mind with an index linked structured settlement annuity or index linked annuities that “uncapped” does not mean “unlimited”. A volatility controlled index shifts assets between a risk component and a risk-free component to reach the targeted volatility level.
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Asset based structured settlement assignment fees can run upwards $10,000 on a $1,000,000 case. It’s way more than a normal assignment fee. The fees may not be disclosed and simply built in to the cost. What you may encounter is obfuscation by multiple layers of complexity. That’s not good.
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Annuity Advocacy appears to be a lead generation website for the structured settlement factoring industry that is currently making the Google adword rotation. Therefore the very name Annuity Advocacy is duplicitous and in context it doesn’t even make sense.
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Qualified Settlement Fund Planner, and for the life of me, with all of my renowned research skills, I can’t seem to find any accredited institution that awards such purported certification, designation, title, or an e-book or leaflet about it. Not a morsel. Not even a smidgen!. Maybe figment of imagination.
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Thinking about what happens to structured settlement payments after the death of the Measuring Life, which of these four statements is correct?
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Once the structured settlement annuity was in place, SABSCO turns around and preys upon Symetra Life annuitants: SABSCO lures them into selling future periodic payments for a highly discounted lump sum without disclosing and actually concealing Defendants’ profit motive and fatal conflict of interest.
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With proper regulation, could structured setlement receivables be useful settlement planning tools in taxable damage cases if transactional risks can be minimized/eliminated and are fully understood by buyers and certain settlement planners and others stop misrepresenting them as annuities?
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Hindert acknowledges that some brokers and settlement planners package and promote factored structured settlement payment rights as tax-free “in-force annuities.” Significantly Hindert warns, these investments are not annuities and they are not structured settlements