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: Dissipation Myth Regarding Lump Sums
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Our “assiduous research” has only uncovered published statement (by a factoring company) which uses the 95% in 5 years dissipation assertion, with no factual support. The factoring company (which published the claim, was challenged to prove its claim and failed to do so.
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Despite Babener’s research a number of structured settlement stakeholders continue to make factual assertions regarding dissipation that conflict with Babener’s findings. The following shows that there is even a 5% swing in facts asserted about dissipation by several structured settlement stakeholders
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The new website of John Bat’s Plaintiff Settlement Solutions Incorporated (“PSSI”, pronounced “Pissy”) is NOT one of “life’s moments that takes our breath away”. As Will Smith might have paraphrased back in the day, time to start “gettin’ pissy with it”
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Forget The Rutter Group and their tortoise like five years, these esteemed industry colleagues apparently have the statistics for a TWO YEAR bust.
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LA Times carries the story of a rally protest rally against the University of California regents prepared to approve a 32% increase in student fees. One reader’s comments demonstrate the “special” place in history cemented by the obnoxious J.G. Wentworth PR machine.
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Upon information and belief less than 10% of structured settlement annuitants sell their structured settlement payment rights, but those that do may engage in multiple transactions, sometimes as many as 5-6 in a very short period of time. As a result some are left destitute.