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: Corebridge/American General Structured Settlements
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With respect to AIG structured settlements, time has shown that the only financial losers were those who sold their structured settlement payment rights at a discount, succumbing to fearmongering vulture-like behavior of certain structured settlement purchasers in 2008-2009
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No AIG strctured settlement annuity issuer received a bailout. Neither American General Life Insurance Company, American International Life Assurance Company of NY(now United States Life Insurance Company in the City of NY) received a bailout. Characterizing it otherwise is total BS.
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By the end of 2012, billions of bailout dollars had been paid back to the government and the AIG brand is back. Here is a video released by AIG in conjunction with the announcement about the return to the AIG brand
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September 9, 2012 The United States Treasury will sell $18 billion of AIG stock and thereby reduce its stake in the insurer to less than 50%. In early 2011 the stake was as high as 92%.
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The AIG nationalization, initially criticized as a significant failure, is now considered a success, according to a Washington Post opinion piece by Charles Lane. The government may soon become a minority shareholder. The article is relevant for those with concerns about AIG-related structured settlements and insurance companies.
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AIG’s re-branding is good for structured settlements. . Structured settlement annuitants with AIG subsidiary companies were paid 100% of their payments throughout the financial crisis and re-branding to AIG demonstrates a high level of confidence by senior management, backed by marketing research.
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American General Life Insurance Company, a structured settlement annuity issuer, amended its General Agent’s contract in 2012 to state, in no uncertain terms, its position against Factoring and Secondary Market activities of its appointed general agents and their employees and affiliates
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AIG’s operating companies were re-branded in 2009, but the AIG brand is back, with good reason- The good will that 90 years in business brings you and crisis management. Time will tell if it proves to be as legendary as JNJ’s Tylenol story, but it will be a Business School case study for many years…
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AGC Life Insurance Company guarantees the obligations owed to structured settlement payees under Qualified Assignments entered into AFTER after January 16, 2012. AGC Life is a MO domiciled life insurance company and owner of certain affiliated life insurance companies of AIG.
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Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company of Nebraska, has been added to the Chartis panel of annuity issuers that it will approve for use with settling the claims of Chartis insureds with structured settlements. To the best of this author's knowledge this is the current Chartis List (with current A.M. Best rating): American General Life Insurance…