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: Forum Shopping Structured Settlement Factoring
Forum Shopping Structured Settlement Factoring is where a structured settlement factoriong company influences the seller and aids them to fabricate a residence in a state they don’t reside in because (1) it’s more convenient for the factoring company (2)the jurisdiction’s judges level of scrutiny is easy for dishonest operators to exploit than the seller’s home state; or (3) they inveigle the seller in the fraud so they’re in neck deep
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CT and its Courts have been used by certain structured settlement factoring companies to circumvent the the scrutiny of NY courts. Structured settlement factoring companies exploit the desperation of their prey, luring them into schemes that could be deemed fraudulent, aware victims could face legal challenges if they contest later.
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A Rochester New York man has filed a a complaint against Structured Asset Funding, LLC d/b/a 123 Lump Sum alleging a fraudulent scheme that involved faking the Plaintiff’s relocation to Florida and the filing of two fraudulent structured settlement transfer petitions in Charlotte Circuit Court
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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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Annuitants who have been coached to lie about their state of residence by a settlement purchaser, in order to complete one or more structured settlement factoring transactions in a state, county or with a specific judge favored by settlement purchasers due to his/her loose enforcement of the best interest test to come forward.
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Caller after caller is a structured settlement annuitant who has been induced into forum shopping by salesmen of the structured settlement secondary market to the state of Florida . Many victims are then systematically churned, “raped” of their structured settlement payouts by a system that fails them.
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IRC 5891 and various state structured settlement protection acts, including the Florida act, were meant to give confidence to sellers and buyers of structured settlements not be part of an in and out 3 ring circus
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Forum shopping is an insidious structured settlement factoring industry practice in which structured settlement annuitant victims are groomed by out of state predators to fabricate a residence address for the purpose of increasing chances of judicial approval of a sale of structured settlement payments.