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: CT Structured Settlement Investments
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Are investments in structured settlement receivables suitable for tort victims? In rare circumstances and after careful deliberation. Buying fixed annuities doesn’t require a court order to be concluded or have such an exposure to transactional risk as do structured settlement receivables.
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NAIC warns of unlicensed legitimate Companies selling unregulated non-insurance products. Factored structured settlement receivables are an unregulated non-insurance product sold by legitimate companies as “Secondary Market Annuities”
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A structured settlement is not an annuity, A structured settlement obligation may be funded with an annuity but the structured settlement itself is not an annuity. This is a fundamental and important distinction for anyone seeking to invest in structured settlement payment rights.
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Connecticut plans to increase statutory protections for structured settlement annuitants in the event of insolvency of the annuity issuer effective October 1, 2019. The correction expressly excludes investors in structured settlement payment rights acquired through a structured settlement transfer.
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Is an investment in structured settlement receivables right for tort victims? In rare circumstances and after careful deliberation. Buying fixed annuities doesn’t require a court order to be concluded or have such an exposure to transactional risk as do structured settlement receivables..
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Pay attention to pleadings in ongoing Genex Capital v Genex Capital Investors Arizona litigation that continues to erode what little credibility is left of the terms “secondary market annuity” and “secondary market annuities”. Retirees should pay attention, so should, insurers, settlement planners,financial planners and their clients.