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
- 🔥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)
- ⭐ THE 18–25 GUIDE TO STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS
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Category: John Darer Reviews
John Darer Reviews is a curated collection of analytical and investigative posts offering clear, expert evaluation of developments in the structured‑settlement, annuity, and specialty‑finance sectors. Each entry reflects my long‑standing commitment to factual accuracy, industry literacy, and transparent documentation of behavior across markets, companies, and regulatory environments.
This category serves as a branded hub for commentary that benefits from my four decades of experience:
forensic breakdowns, timeline reconstructions, ethical assessments, and deep‑context explanations that help readers understand not just what happened, but why it matters.
Over time, John Darer Reviews has become a recognizable signature on the blog — a place where readers know they’ll find grounded analysis, historical continuity, and a growing archive of posts tied together by a consistent voice and professional standard.
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A structured settlement is NOT an award. A settlement is a compromise. A structured settlement may be part of the compromise. There has to be a “meeting of the minds”. There has to be an agreement. The settlement agreement is a contract.
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In this blog John Darer reviews some really contorted statements about structured settlement factoring in a piece authored by Mia Taylor and edited by Hannah Smith for Bankrate.com and Yahoo Finance, and delivers his riposte below.
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John Darer reviews which “structured settlement” calculators are useful and which are just honeypots to get your personal information for factoring company honeybadgers?
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What Is a Deferred Payment Agreement and How Does It Benefit the Team and the Athlete? The LA Dodgers will pay Shohei Ohtani $2 million annually for the first 10 years and DEFER $680 million, to be paid out from 2034 to 2043. The Dodgers will save about $24 million in annual luxury payroll taxes/
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Kansas HB 2810 contains an express exclusion that states and makes it clear that investors in structured settlement receivables HAVE NO SAFETY NET in the event of insolvency of the annuity issuer. HB2810 was introduced February 20, 2024.
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Alliance for Pooled Trusts seeks to provide peer review of the administration of Pooled Special Needs Trusts through the process of accreditation and continual ongoing training opportunities, resources, and tools.
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Weiss Ratings (formerly Weiss Research) | First Insurance Rating Organization to issue Independent Financial Strength Ratings for Life and Health Insurance Companies
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With all the good work that the South Carolina legislature is now doing and working on to create the state of the art Structured Settlement Protection law, an April 16, 2023 opinion piece by the Editorial Staff of The Post and Courier was reckless.
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JG Wentworth must be buying something if people have been scoring all that “cash now”. What the heck is it? Think “Receivables Purchase Agreement” not ” Buying an Annuity”. Raising cash from your structured settlement means you are selling receivables or structured settlement payment rights.
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Structured attorney fees and other attorney fee deferral options keep the money rolling in for contingency fee lawyers. Structured attorney fee and attorney fee deferral options can be set up to pay to individual lawyers, to lawyers in a solo practice, to partners in a law firm, or the law firm itself.