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: Detroit Michigan Structured Settlements
Detroit Michigan structured settlements ommentary by structured settlement expert John Darer that may be of interest to injured persons, guardians, consumers, lawyers, businesses in Detroit with personal injury or wrongful death claims
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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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You do not need to name an annuity beneficiary in your will because all it will do is delay the payment of proceeds while the Estate of the decedent is probated. Naming a beneficiary with the annuity issuer results in much faster and less costly distributions following the death of the annuitant payee.
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A video inaccurately claims that annuity-based attorney fee deferral programs must use offshore funds. The author clarifies that domestic structured settlement annuities can fund attorney fees without going offshore. Various reputable insurance companies offer options that cater to attorneys seeking to enhance their wealth through these deferral programs.
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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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American General has recently introduced a number of periodic payment innovations to the structured settlement market Interest Rate Linked Structured Settlements (IRLSS) and Non Qualified Assignment Facility with Domestic Assignment Company and Ability to Defer
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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
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Once the United States learned of Mr. Gargan’s embezzlement, it allocated new funds to purchase the agreed upon annuities for the victims. As a result, each of the settlement agreements listed in Count 1 have been fully satisfied (by the US. Government)
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Neither the beneficiary of this structured settlement nor any other assignee shall have the power to assign the periodic payments to any third party without a genuine hardship and even then only with the advice of counsel. Any purported assignment in violation of this provision shall be void ab initio.
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At the plaintiff’s home to notarize confidential settlement documents to establish a structured settlement, the notary public mentioned that she knew someone who “could get the client more money” and called a representative of a structured settlement factoring company from another state
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Joe Gargan, CEO of The Pension Company, pled guilty to embezzling $8 million meant for annuities funding minor settlements. This criminal act not only raised concerns among clients but also imposed additional costs on taxpayers. The case highlighted the need for escrow and proper safeguards to prevent similar fraudulent activity in structured settlements.