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: Financial Crisis Era (2008-2010)
Financial Crisis Era (2008–2010)includes posts covering the events, reactions, and fallout of the 2008–2010 financial crisis. Includes commentary on AIG, credit default swaps, bailout anger, regulatory failures, and the public narratives that shaped this period.
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No AIG strctured settlement annuity issuer received a bailout. Neither American General Life Insurance Company, American International Life Assurance Company of NY(now United States Life Insurance Company in the City of NY) received a bailout. Characterizing it otherwise is total BS.
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The unanswered question in any situation like this is would an assessment on a sufficiently large enough insolvent institution be the catalyst the breaks the back of otherwise solvent financial institutions?
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The AIG office in Vestal, NY, was not staffed by individuals connected to the credit default swap crisis. The employees there are dedicated professionals with families, who have endured hardships like everyone else due to the poor decision-making within the London financial products division.