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: Houston Structured Settlements
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Corebridge Financial and Equitable Holdings are merging in a $22 billion all-stock deal, creating a new company named Equitable, trading on the NYSE as EQH. Corebridge shareholders will own 51%, while Equitable shareholders will hold 49%. The merger aims to enhance service for over 12 million customers and diversify offerings.
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Fitch Ratings has affirmed Corebridge Financial’s ratings at an A+, with a Stable outlook. Corebridge provides structured settlement annuities for both qualified and non-qualified structured settlements through its subsidiaries American General and United States Life Insurance Company in the City of New York.
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Carron Nicks’ structured settlement sophistry for NOLO fails to differentiate between a settlement and an award.and uses an improbable example in which the exemplar structured settlement simply parcels out principal over 10 years with no interest. Nicks fails on both counts..
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Structured attorney fees and other attorney fee deferral options keep the money rolling in for contingency fee lawyers. Structured attorney fee and attorney fee deferral options can be set up to pay to individual lawyers, to lawyers in a solo practice, to partners in a law firm, or the law firm itself.
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Your “dating habits” can get you into trouble when establishing structured attorney fee programs, attorney fee deferred compensation,and structured settlements for taxable damages..Avoid January 1 payment dates and resulting funds being deposited into your account, arriving before January 1,..
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Weiss Ratings (formerly Weiss Research) | First Insurance Rating Organization to issue Independent Financial Strength Ratings for Life and Health Insurance Companies
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A structured settlement is not a judgment, but this fundamental fact seems to befuddle structured settlement factoring companies and/or their marketing teams..It’s all rather silly.
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It is well settled that factored structured settlement payment rights are not annuities. Factored Structured Settlement Receivables are an unregulated non-insurance product sold by legitimate companies as “”Structured Settlement Annuities” and “Secondary Market Annuities”. It’s just reckless at this point.
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Strategic Capital, a Canadian structured settlement factoring company, has become a Sustaining Partner of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association by contributing $27,000 to $36,000. Critics question the implications of “working alongside” lawyers in managing settlements and highlight the lack of regulation in this industry, suggesting that clients should explore options thoroughly before proceeding.
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Independent Life Insurance Company highlights its value proposition to attorneys, insurers, plaintiffs and the like in anew brochure. Independent, a structured settlement only company offers solutions for both qualfied and non qualified structured settlements.