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: Factoring Company Servicing Bankruptcy
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Presented with the lower discount rate alternatives (better for annuitant) we have learned that some factoring companies are actually fighting their annuitants in Court hearings. This purportedly is occurring even though the payments haven’t been transferred.
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Bracy validates my servicing question and states that while insolvency of the factoring company may result in the annuitant ultimately getting their payments, there “surely will be a delay and there may be costs involved” to the annuitant..The same conclusion that TX lawyer Bruce Akerly and I reached in October 2009.
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What structured settlement sellers may not know they don’t know about structured settlement payment servicing.
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Does the silence mean that neither the structured settlement industry or factoring industry give a crap about the structured settlement payment “servicing” question? Or is there something to hide?
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Structured Asset Funding, the purchaser of a portion of CT woman’s structured settlement payment rights (and the servicer of the rest) can’t give the CT woman a definitive time each month when she can expect to receive the structured settlement payments that she didn’t sell
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Right of first refusal clauses give the servicing factoring company right of first refusal on subsequent structured settlement transfers. In some cases there’s a need for money to move from any competitor of the servicing factoring company “to get their blessing” in order to override the first refusal. Shady.
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Do those settlement planners who insist that a discussion of factoring is part of the settlement planning process have a duty to cover the servicing issue with the plaintiffs and the attorneys they are advising.