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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- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
- Canonical: Non‑Qualified Assignment (NQA)
- ⭐ THE 18–25 GUIDE TO STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS
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Category: Financial History
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The bill’s sponsors Bean(s) and “Royce”, a Nutritious “Band” of Congress People provide some hope.. But is There Enough Fiber Between Them to “Get Things Going”, legislatively speaking
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The New York Post reports that junk bond bets have soared to their best comeback since the 1980s Year over year returns for May were purportedly 25.4%, citing at Bank of America Merrill Lynch report. The Post alleges that analysts say "risks of distressed debt may not be as scary as expected because some of…
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How various structured settlement annuity issuing life insurance companies fared during the years of The Great Depression in the 1930s
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The Wall Street Journal alerts us that the U.S. entered a recession in December 2007, citing the official recession watchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER economists met on Friday and announced the day after Thanksgiving (when few people could argue in hindsight that the only thing that has expanded over the last…
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Rising loan defaults spurred by tumbling home prices and spiking unemployment have done in another 4 banks. The failure of Austin, TX based Guaranty bank, which was announced on Friday, along with failure of three small banks in Georgia and Alabama Friday, brought the 2009 grand tally of U.S. bank failures to 81 compared to…
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WHY, with such readily available information, decisions were made by judges approving infant settlement orders (with a non delegable duty to protect minors), plaintiff lawyers, parents, guardians ad litem, financial advisers and adult plaintiffs, to put all of New York plaintiff’s “eggs in one basket”?
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New York City structured settlement insurance companies issuing structured settlement annuities in the Five Boroughs of New York City and the rest of New York state through New York licensed insurance agents and brokers
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It is not easy to put things in perspective when facing shortfalls that some ELNY annuitants are facing (impact of shortfalls) on your future. One thing that gets lost in ELNY Liquidation talk is that for 25-30 years ALL ELNY annuitants received 100% of a grossly unreasonably priced annuity amount to begin with.
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With national elections upon us and the recent announcement by the United States Treasury that the Federal deficit as of September 30, 2008 was $455B (the largest in US history) the following timeless words of the Great Depression era seem appropriate: "This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and…
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”From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,” said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ”If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.”