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: John Hancock Life Insurance/ John Hancock Life Insurance Co of NY
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A qualified assignment is an assignment of obligation to make future periodic payments which satisfies the requirements of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) §130. The periodic payments must be damages payable by the defendant,its liability insurer, or a QSF and excludable under §104(a)(1) or (2)
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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 number of current and former structured settlement annuity companies are listed in the 2011 Fortune World Most Admired list. Fortune World Most Admired list has been “the definitive report card on corporate reputations” since 1997. Leaders in the survey have been adjudged a leader by its peers.
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Best’s Review has published “Standing the Test of Time” its annual report of insurance companies that have demonstrated their financial strength for half a century or more. Many current and past structured settlement annuity issuers make the list.
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How various structured settlement annuity issuing life insurance companies fared during the years of The Great Depression in the 1930s
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The Allstate Structured Settlement Program has gone retro, apparently for strategic business reasons. Until today tort victims who faced a defendant or respondent that was an Allstate insured, who wanted a structured settlement could essentially have the structure placed with any annuity issuer rated A+ (Superior), or better, by AM Best & Company. Prior to…
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Moodys recently upgraded John Hancock to Aa1, its second highest category. This upgrade together with the recent upgrade of New York Life by Standard & Poors is a testament to the financial strength of the annuity issuers of structured settlement annuities.
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An otherwise excellent article Donald Jay Korn on the financial security offered by long-term care insurers in the April 2009 issue of Financial Planning magazine (pp. 48-53) ends with a “goal line fumble” that has me scratching my head.