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: Illinois Structured Settlements
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The key take away is that it is the damages that are tax exempt. With a properly established structured settlement, that starts with an obligation to make future periodic payments as damages on account of personal physical injury, An annuity commonly funds the periodic payment obligation.
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The total loss of James R. Gibson’s clients was $156,194,810.92 and many of them needed the money to support themselves and fund necessary medical treatment.
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Such a plan design encourages a young adult to sell their structured settlement for the figurative equivalent of a half eaten french fry composting on a landfill for 9 years, on the dollar. Such a plan design has no place in the structured settlement industry.
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The Illinois Supreme Court denied the Petition to Review of Peachtree Settlement Funding in the Brenston case, a decision that may leave some structured settlement factoring companies and their investors with the turkey “trots”.
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Can someone who has sold structured settlement payment rights get their structure back if they later regret their decisions? If a recent decision in the Appellate Court of Illinois, 4th District holds, the answer is upgraded from no to maybe.
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Tax increases improve the intrinsic value of existing structured settlements, as well structured attorney fee programs and non qualified assignments. An increase in income tax also makes new structured settlements more attractive, even at times when yields are modest.
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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