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: Chicago Illinois Structured Settlements
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IRC 130(c) is a definition of what a qualified assignment IS, in the context of what a qualified assignment DOES from a tax standpoint. IRC 130(c) and the other parts of IRC 130 are not mutually exclusive. Potentially huge tax consequences to attorneys deferring with factored structured settlements.
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John Hancock Life is rolling out a new structured settlement exchange program that enables John Hancock annuitants to address their liquidity needs when they arise, while providing a measure of protection against secondary market predators
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An Oregon Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) previously found that a Plaintiff’s structured settlement annuity was not an excluded resource for purposes of SSI. In a 2-21-2020 decision, the decision was REVERSED and this matter was REMANDED for recalculation of benefits. Here’s the story
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Life is not an arc as the structured settlement broker says. Transitions are an iterative process not a linear process. While life may throw you a couple of curve balls, life itself is neither linear nor a smooth curve like an arc.
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Payees have sued the USA over ELNY shortfalls and failed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Langkamp case focuses on the settlement agreement. The USA’s commitment was inherent in the language of the agreement, the opinion by Judge Haldane Robert Mayer said.
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40% of investors in factored structured settlement payments are hedge funds, 50% are life insurance companies and 10% individual investors. Would an audit shown rhedge funds and life insurers are profiting from some of the worst cases of financial rape of minorities, and retirees?
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Structured Settlement Industry at “Half Time” 2019. After returning to $6 billion in production in 2018, production through Q2 2019 exceeded $3B in premium for structured settlement annuities Top 3 were MetLife, Pacific Life and Berkshire Hathaway . Prudential and USAA Life Insurance Company round out the top 5 at half time.
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Under French law, any partners and children will receive a monthly benefit of up to 80 percent of his salary until what would have been his retirement age and then a share of his pension. C’est la vie!
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Payment of (structured settlement) brokers’ commissions from out of the money Lexington paid for the annuities does not belie the facts that Lexington paid the amounts it quoted and that appellants received exactly those specific annuity payments the settlement agreements had promised,
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Qualified assignments only became available for workers compensation cases filed AFTER August 5, 1997. An outstanding workers compensation liability can also be settled using a reinsurance solution if the employer is insured.