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.
recent posts
- 🔥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: Hartford Life Insurance Company
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A funding agreement is a low-risk, fixed-income B2B investment that an institutional investor may purchase similar to a period certain annuity. Funding Agrement structured settlements are an alternative to an annuity to fund a non qualified assignment using a domestic assignment company.
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The Hartford sale of Talcott Resolution was completed | Annuity, Structured Settlement, Life Run Off
Talcott Resolution, based in Windsor CT, is the run off company for The Hartford’s legacy life and annuity business. including structured settlement annuities (which Hartford Life stopped writing in April 2012).
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If you have Hartford Life Structured Settlement it likely owned by Hartford CEBSCO. Annuity Issuer is Hartford Life Insurance Company. Obligations of Hartford CEBSCO are guaranteed by Hartford Life,Ins Co and Hartford Life, Inc. Both companies are part of the Talcott Resolution deal.
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Structured settlement annuities tend to be issued by largest and well capitalized insurers in the United States. 50% of the top 12 insurance holding companies in the United States include a subsidiary or subsidiaries that issue structured settlement annuities.
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FACT: Lead plaintiff Erica Biddings DID have a structured settlement broker of her own, Black Holcomb Smith & Associates. FACT: Lead plaintiff Erica Biddings DID choose her own structured settlement plan design and funding companies and AIG DID NOT object.
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Ask Mr Annuity, another merchant of factored structured settlement payments mislabeled “secondary market annuities”. Following breadcrumbs leads to the bombshell discovery that payment streams were sourced from an entity related to Michael Borkowski CEO of Access Funding
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A Shawnee OK woman was shafted when a buyer of structured settlement payments took more out of the deal than she did. That a buyer can use opaque pricing while not giving seller (and judges who must determine if the transaction is in seller’s best interest), tools to make comparisons is loony.
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Structured settlement annuities are issued by some of the oldest and largest life insurance companies in the United States. Many companies that issue these annuities are also among the biggest issuers of life insurance in the world.
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Aliases of companies in the structured settlement secondary market are as common as bad coffee, shielding those behind them while baffling everyone else, life insurance companies included—as hilariously demonstrated by this mass email from The Hartford.
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Hartford Life Insurance Company produced a comparison between structured settlements and other alternative financial products like CDs, in 1999, that has been clung to like a kid sucking his thumb by some structured settlement brokers.