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 Transfers
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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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Business must be brisk in Sumter County, the Florida county that has achieved notoriety in the structured settlement community for being a favorite venue for forum shopping cash now pushers and sellers of structured settlement payments who want to “test their boundaries”.
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Secondary market “annuities”, which are not even annuities, can and will unravel if the applicable federal and state laws governing the underlying structured settlement factoring transactions have not been complied with
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JGWPT intentionally failed to inform consumers that if their settlement contained an anti-assignment clause, no lump sum payment could be made to the consumer, according to the class action complaint
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Forum shopping, it’s not just a Florida thing! A lifelong Cook County Illinois resident calls and told me how several of his structured settlement factoring deals were submitted in Sagamon County Illinois by a prominent member of NASP. Forum shopping, it’s not just a Florida thing!
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This investigation examines whether Julius G. was domiciled in Florida during the transfer of his structured settlement payment rights, as discrepancies arise from his active Michigan ID at the time of the order. The inquiry highlights legal implications regarding jurisdiction and compliance with Florida’s Structured Settlement Act.
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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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Some believe that a strong enough case of structured settlement forum shopping, particularly if there is a demonstrable pattern and practice could, in some cases, invalidate an order and serve to “contribute to helping our nation’s deficit”.
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An structured settlement annuitant from the Syracuse New York area has engaged in 5 structured settlement transfers with the SAME settlement purchaser since August 2011, with another currently pending in what appears to be rampant forum shopping.
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A 19 year old from North Carolina, who had lived in North Carolina since he was 4 years old was apparently able to circumvent the North Carolina Structured Settlement Protection Act, thanks to a prominent member of NASP in 2009