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: Florida Structured Settlement Cash Now
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The 11th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has pulled the plug on Lujerio Cordero’s Serial Structured Settlement Factoring Case, following the majority opinion in the NY Court of Appeals in April 2023..11th Circuit notes that Cordero DID NOT sue the Structured Settlement Factoring Companies
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The annuity that funds the structured settlment is not owned by the payee, it is owned by the qualified assignment company. In a structured settlement transfer, the annuity does not get transferred or purchased. What is bought and sold is the structured settlement payment rights
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Structured settlement factoring companies absorb court scraped data into databases, track for those reaching majority age and then target newly minted adults. Such targets are big fish for factoring companies as they present ample unsold future payments to target for exploitation.
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Recipients of structured settlements have been targets of criminal and fraudulent acts based upon publicly available identifying information and are especially vulnerable during transfer proceedings to fraudulent actors purporting to be from legitimate entities.
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It’s bad enough that certain stand alone structured settlement factoring companies and their shills “misgender” settlements as awards, but a settlement purchaser associated with a settlement planning firm is joining in the “poopsmithery”.
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Defendants had no affirmative obligation to prevent Plaintiff from assigning his annuity benefits. The Settlement Agreement doesn’t require that Defendants exercise the anti-assignment clause for Plaintiff’s benefit. The clause exists for Defendants’ benefit and may be exercised at their discretion.
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Structured Asset Funding, LLC, also known as 123LumpSum, is facing legal challenges for its questionable practices regarding residency in structured settlement transfer petitions. The case highlights potential forum shopping and misleading actions from representatives. Notably, communications reveal attempts to circumvent previous court determinations, raising concerns over adherence to legal standards.
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Investors have sensationally sued Genex Capital Corporation and Genex Strategies, Inc. in a lawsuit that presents a stunning example of the transactional risks of investing in factored structured settlement payment streams that make them wildly different from real annuities.
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Today structured settlement factoring has devolved from justification as a source of liquidity to one of endless documented cases of systemic destruction of a stable source of income for annuitants, with the aid of shady lawyers and certain inattentive judges not up to the task.