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 Settlements
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With the increase in the number of structured settlement factoring companies, many of these firms are resorting to unethical & unfair practices in an attempt to gain a competitive advantage. In addition, many are engaged in rampant forum shopping and are, in DRBs opinion, committing a fraud upon the courts of Florida and other states
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Plaintiffs admitted that a 4% commission is paid no matter who the placing broker is. NY Law has no requirement to disclose commissions, yet most firms such as ours, do so anyway as part of affidavits they submit accompanying petitions for settlements for minors or in wrongful death cases.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issued a Warning to Consumers About Selling Their Structured Settlements in response to “What should I know before giving up my monthly disability, personal injury or structured settlement payments in exchange for a one-time lump sum payment
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Salespeople have targeted and induced structured settlement annuitants receiving a steady stream of income into selling their structured settlement payments from a company in business since your great great-grandmother was a pup, for an illusory speculative investments and then disappear..
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Questions continue regarding intermediaries, financial planners and settlement planners who distribute structured settlement payment rights (structured settlement derivatives) to investors mislabeled as annuities.
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Structured settlements are NOT being forged. Structured Settlement Transfer Orders WERE forged in 234 counts by a New York City paralegal and in a separate matter, 104 counts by a MIami lawyer representing structured settlement buyers in Broward County Florida
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Client First Settlement Funding Sent Letter With 8% Average 30 Year Investment Projections to Potential Sellers As An Inducement.The Issue of Inducement Must Be Dealt With By The CFPB and State Legislators. The question of “What is, and what is not, a proper inducement?” must be clarified.
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Jose Manuel Camacho Jr, the disgraced fraudster Miami lawyer arrested in Fall 2015, who admitted to forging 7 Broward County Florida judge’s signatures on multiple structured settlement transfer orders, will be changing his plea, and will sentenced on August 26, 2016.
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Investors in structured settlement payments rights in structured settlement transfers submitted by corrupt Miami lawyer Jose Manuel Camacho Jr. are suffering, as the annuity issuers have purportedly frozen payments while the mess is sorted. Camacho’s forgeries and forgeries in NY illustrate the dangers for investors in structured settlement payment rights.