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.
recent posts
- Daily Rates Are Often an Important Cost Driver of Structured Settlements
- 🔥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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AIG’s re-branding is good for structured settlements. . Structured settlement annuitants with AIG subsidiary companies were paid 100% of their payments throughout the financial crisis and re-branding to AIG demonstrates a high level of confidence by senior management, backed by marketing research.
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Comparing $40 million to $819.6 billion, it’s clear the mighty MetLife “Redwood” is standing, as it has since 1868. Current and prospective policyholders of MetLife, rest assured there’s money for the largest life insurance company in the USA to keep the Snoopy 2 in the air AND to pay your claims.
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AIG’s operating companies were re-branded in 2009, but the AIG brand is back, with good reason- The good will that 90 years in business brings you and crisis management. Time will tell if it proves to be as legendary as JNJ’s Tylenol story, but it will be a Business School case study for many years…
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AGC Life Insurance Company guarantees the obligations owed to structured settlement payees under Qualified Assignments entered into AFTER after January 16, 2012. AGC Life is a MO domiciled life insurance company and owner of certain affiliated life insurance companies of AIG.
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The companies that issue structured settlement annuities are among the biggest financial institutions in the United States, if not the world. Not only are they the biggest but the majority of companies are also growing,
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A.M. Best’s Life/Health Rating Division will review new research on the effects of the ongoing historic low interest rate environment on life and annuity insurers in a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, November 9 at 2 p.m. ET. Panelists will discuss: • Challenges life insurers face in achieving target interest spreads • How reserve adequacy testing of…
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John Darer and Mark Wahlstrom discuss Executive Life of New York, what’s going on, how it could impact ELNY structured settlement annuitants, industry changes in the last 20 years, in part due to the Executive Life and ELNY impairments and how likely this will happen in the future.