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: Judges Responsibility and Structured Settlements
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The CFPB suggests that you get a second opinion or an independent evaluation from a trusted source, your own attorney, or a financial adviser. Be cautious of recommendations from the company trying to get your structured settlement.
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The Negotiator Guys was created as the antidote to the structured settlement annuitant manipulation, massive profits, and they say, in some cases, illegal methods used within the structured settlement purchasing industry at the expense of annuitants.
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Are you a resident of New York who has been threatened by a settlement buyer that has advanced money on a structured settlement factoring transaction, simply because you got cold feet, or otherwise decided to back out?
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When does an insurance company start to flag a structured settlement factoring case for intervention? Are insurers doing enough, or should an insurer have a greater role in protecting its insured structured settlement annuitants from abusive structured settlement cash now hustlers now and in the future?
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The structured settlement secondary market currently poses carries significant financial and reputation risk for participants in the unregulated market segment where there is no licensing and no regulator of its sales practices.
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A sampling of where things have gone terribly wrong for structured settlement annuitants. Valid questions arise about the miserable performance of the judges in providing the protection that NASP and structured settlement protection acts suggest
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RC 5891(b)(1) provides that the excise tax under IRC 5891(a) shall not apply in the case of a structured settlement factoring transaction in which the transfer of structured settlement payment rights is approved in advance in a qualified order. It is these orders that a former Paris & Chaikin paralegal is alleged to have falsified.
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Public Access to Court records is there for a purpose. The access in not the issue, it is how the structured settlement annuitants are solicited by cash now pushers using the data that is the problem. That’s not all!
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Judge Nelson C. Johnson’s gave a masterclass in how judges should be evaluating “best interest” in structured settlement transfers, in his decision in the matter of In re Keena, No. L-1004-15, 2015 BL 315298 (N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. June 18, 2015) [2015 BL 315298