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 Industry Servicing Commentary and Discussion
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It is critical that structured settlement cash now pushers’ behavior be exposed and documented. It just does not seem right that some poor bastard needs to be shackled to an noncompetitive cash now pusher.
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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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S&P has stated that “If Peach is unable to close on a new facility for its life settlements business, we believe the company could suffer from severe liquidity constraints in the near term”.
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Most people can’t afford to wait THAT long if they are forced to sell structured settlements to pay bills!
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John Darer’s prescient Oct 2009 interview of Dallas bankruptcy attorney Bruce Akerly on the potential impact of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy of a structured settlement receivable servicing company on the annuitant’s remaining payments, 15 years prior to SuttonPark’s ignominious demise.
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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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The following letter has been sent to NSSTA leadership by this author: "As you may be aware a number of annuity issuers/assignees are permitting factoring companies to "service" the annuity issuer/assignee's structured settlement obligations. The arrangement starts off with the first factoring deal, which is for a portion of the payments and the factoring company ends…
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Northeastern Capital Funding, LLC out of New York, has a web page that says “Structured Settlement Annuity Done Right”. Besides its pedestrian use of the English language, this company is implying it is something that it isn’t. Northeastern Capital Funding is an example of what not to do.