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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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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The lack of licensing of settlement purchasing companies in the State of Connecticut while continuing to burden agents that are licensed, pay taxes (and many of whom VOTE) in Connecticut is short sighted, for the following reasons.
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Imperial Structured Settlements and JG Wentworth Glossary Omit Terms Intrinsic To What They Do. WHY?
The term Structured settlement factoring transaction is omitted from the glossaries of JG Wentworth and Imperial Structured Settlements at the time of posting. How amusing! That’s like a shopping glossary missing the term “credit card”.
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Matt Bracy has accepted that his factoring company and other structured settlement factors made a significant investment in efforts to challenge the USA to dismantle structured settlements, and “courts across the country have determined they (the United States government) are correct.”
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How does the prominent plaintiff structured settlement broker resolve the conflict of ‘sell your structured settlement’ while his other business is promoting the benefits of structured settlements and admonishing lawyers they could be held responsible for failing to present structured settlements to their clients in resolving their cases?
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If a factoring company is “servicing” the entire structured settlement, but only assigned the structured settlement payment rights to a portion, what happens to the unassigned “serviced” payments if the factoring company goes belly up?
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Insurers charge processing fees on structured settlement factoring transactions which range from $300-$1,600 per transaction. Fees are charged to the factoring company and then baked into their effective discount rate. when an annuitant sells structured settlement payment rights.
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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.