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: Hartford Life Insurance Company
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Positive changes have been made with respect to Hartford’s structured settlement program.
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Hartford Financial Services Group took a $2.6B hit in the 3rd quarter which was comprised of $2.2B in capital losses and $932 MM in deferred acquisition costs related to new and renewed policies Today Hartford released the following statement from Ayer which said: "I want to reassure you that the current stock price is not…
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Now that the Spencer v Hartford settlement has been finalized and distribution checks have been mailed perhaps the scaremongers "firing guns into the sky" from the left wing of the settlement industry (to those trial lawyers who will listen), can stifle themselves. The structured settlement watchdog condemns the behavior of a certain element of those that refer to themselves…
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Surely there is nothing to be gained by having inaccurate or false information in a comparison on a structured settlement website. Let’s do a better job of checking accuracy and relevancy!
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Moodys Investor Services has rated Allstate Life Insurance Company and Allstate Life Insurance Company of New York Aa3. The rating change does not affect the core auto and home insurance business which remains at Aa2. This one notch downgrade is consistent with current industry expectations and pressure being placed on rating agencies by federal regulators legislators who…
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The Hartford comparisons are a structured settlements legacy that bears the characteristics of thumb sucking child’s blanket.
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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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FOOD FOR THOUGHT 5 year CD 2.81% Source: Bankrate.com Taxable 5 Year T Bond 2.01% Source: Bloomberg.com Taxable 5 Year Muni 1.79% Source: Bloomberg.com Tax Free Income 5 Year TIPS 0.27% Source: Bloomberg.com Taxable 5 year secondary market structured settlement payment rights (available at press time) with a cost of $209,765.00 yielding: $22,500.00 per year…
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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