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: In Force Structured Settlement Market Commentary and Discussion
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An investor who has a purchased a number of factored structured settlement payment streams shared that recent turnover in payment servicers resulted in his acquired payments being delayed sometimes for several months. .When you buy a legitimate annuity, there is no payment servicing.
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Income Stream Exchange, The Annuities Exchange, and Settlement Exchange claim to be structured settlement exchanges but mislead consumers and investors by not functioning as authentic exchanges.
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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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Kitces completely whiffs when he says that “generally the sale of a structured annuity results in the transfer of the actual annuity contract”. It doesn’t. A “Structured Settlement Investment” is an investment in structured settlement payment rights.
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Transaction Risk in Structured Settlement Investing Is Far Greater Than Insolvency Risk and could lead to a loss of investment plus legal expenses if, as in recent examples, a transfer order for structured settlement payment rights is vacated.
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Somerset Wealth Strategies and Bulbrook-Drislane run distribution channels for structured settlement payments rights targeted to individual investors and their financial advisers.
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One thing is for sure, if you must go down the road of selling your structured settlement payment rights you must shop around to avoid getting a bad deal.
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As part of its effort to sell what it labels a direct investment in an annuity contract, the settlement purchaser states that “each state has a specific limited guarantee or fund for repayment in the event that an insurance company is not able to meet their obligations.
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Efforts of AAPD, Congressmen Cartwright and Sensebrenner are appreciated, but they and their colleagues must do more to protect disabled structured settlement annuitants. States must do more. It is not simply the matter of education. New laws must be passed to better protect them