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: IRC 468B Qualified Settlement Fund
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Another settlement planning professional is cutting corners-this time with woefully deficient articulation of Qualified Settlement Funds (a/k/a 468B Trust), a major tool for settlement planners and their clients
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Hindert’smiscalculation of the amount of damages (as a scare tactic) in Spencer v Hartford, “made” professor Adam Scales “a household name”, and now emboldened by a proposed settlement to suggest that such case be “prostituted” and used as a threat to scare defendants into 468B trusts.
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In Sorcery and "Risk" Craft in Back Door Rescue to Single Claimant IRC 468B QSF" we discussed Dick Risk's "magic potion" for the rescue of the single plaintiff qualified settlement fund project. The NSSTA has pounced with all the fervor of an unleashed Maxine Nightingale lyric: "…And if you get hurt (If you get hurt)By…
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Risk suggested wrapping the support to the single claimant 468B QSF argument into IRC 104.in Tax Notes October 7, 2009. The then 7 year pending issue of guidance on the single claimant 468B was removed from Treasury’s 2009-2010 Priority Guidance Plan much to the chagrin of its proponents.
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The new website of John Bat’s Plaintiff Settlement Solutions Incorporated (“PSSI”, pronounced “Pissy”) is NOT one of “life’s moments that takes our breath away”. As Will Smith might have paraphrased back in the day, time to start “gettin’ pissy with it”
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In the last few months it is evident that a number of licensed insurance agents or brokers, whether individuals or firms, that are Partners For Justice with the New York State Trial Lawyers Association have begun to offer discounts for services. This post explores some of the ethical considerations and potential pitfalls of such practice.…
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Robert Wood, a tax attorney based in San Francisco, CA has written an interesting article on Qualified Settlement Funds that appeared in the Los Angeles Daily Journal on July 23, 2009. Wood believes the time has come for the QSF. Wood does not address the controversial single claimant issue in this article.
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Are settlement planners supposed to be “selectively logical”? So much gum flapping has been done on this subject that it could be an alternative energy source.
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I’m talking about the kind of “shrinkage” that mischaracterizes a useful settlement planning tool for “solid waste”. That is the major difference that exists between ” IRC 468B” and IRC 468b or 468(b)
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Qualified settlement funds involving a single claimant were once heavily promoted by single claimant “QSF jockeys” as a method to get around insurance company approved lists and get a “full market survey”, The reality is anything but today. The status quo has changed.