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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- 🔥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)
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Category: Insurance Company News
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Weiss Ratings Inc., a leading independent provider of ratings and analyses of financial companies, mutual funds, and stocks in the USA reports that life and health insurers' investment profits more than tripled, skyrocketing 224% to $1.8 billion in the first nine months of 2005 compared to $552 million for the same period in 2004. Weiss…
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Several clients have asked about Allstate's selling of its Variable Annuity division to Prudential in relation to its structured settlements business. There is no effect! With the exception of Met Life's Settlement Plus product, structured settlements are funded with customized deferred fixed annuities or SPIAs, not a variable annuities. Here's a link to the deal…
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AIG announced today in a press release on the AIG corporate web site that it has reached a resolution of claims and matters under investigation with the United States Department of Justice the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), the Office of the New York Attorney General and the New York State Department of Insurance. These…
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Allstate Life discontinued medical underwriting for both qualified and non-qualified structured settlement business as of March 31, 2009. Allstate’s decision to no longer issue rated ages is acost cutting measure, said to be due to high underwriting volumes and low placement rates.
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Structured settlement annuity issuers again appear in the FORTUNE list of America's Most Admired Companies for 2008. The annual FORTUNE survey has been called "the definitive report card on corporate reputations". There's nothing better than having your peers recognize you and the survey that forms the basis for these rankings does just that. Peers are…
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Integrity Funding Sources, of Portland Oregon, has done something that clearly dents their brand image. It shows us that a “morally descriptive” marketing name means nothing unless a company, like Integrity Funding, can back it up with its actions.
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With the recent market turmoil, Aviva USA, parent of structured settlement annuity issuers, Aviva Life and Annuity Company and Aviva Life and Annuity Company of New York is using a multimedia approach to take the opportunity over the next several weeks to emphasize the strength and stability of the company and its products to producers…
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The 2006 Best A++ rating action applied to American General Life and American Internatonal Life Assurance Company of New York which, at the time, were the main companies in the AIG familiy of companies issuing structured settlement annuities
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Several insurance groups with ties to the structured settlement industry submitted applications to become bank holding companies to the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) on Friday November 14, 2008. The Hartford Financial Services Group, parent of current structured annuity issuer Hartford Life Insurance Company, Genworth Financial Inc., and Aegon NV, parents of former structured annuity…