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: Miami Structured Settlement Investments
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Refactored Structured Settlements is used by some to unartfully describe investments in transferred structured settlement payment rights from other people’s structured settlements, when used as an alternative investment vehicle to a settling plaintiff.
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You or your US clients may be pitched investments in other people’s structured settlements using the false flag claim that they’re annuities. Structured settlement receivables aren’t annuities and bear risks to investors that may make them unsuitable for vulnerable retirees and personal injury victims.
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Partial Summary Judgment granted to Investors (1) Investors are the owners of and have the right to receive payments arising from the Payment Streams; (2) Genex has no right, title,or interest in Keefer’ Payment Streams; (3) Genex had and has no right to withhold, sell, or reassign the Keefers’ Payment Streams.
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The risk for people who are already invested in other people’s structured settlement payment rights is that the exclusion is applied retroactively and they have no protection in the event of insolvency of the underlying annuity issuer or bankruptcy of the qualified assignment company.
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A Secondary Market Annuity is not an annuity says the NAIC. If you invest in an SMA, you have no insolvency protection in 34 states, with 2 considering it and the NAIC pushing hard for all 50 states to adopt 2017 revision to the Life & Health Guaranty Association Model Act (#520).
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A structured settlement is not an annuity, A structured settlement obligation may be funded with an annuity but the structured settlement itself is not an annuity. This is a fundamental and important distinction for anyone seeking to invest in structured settlement payment rights.
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The focus should be on enforecable secondary marketplace standards regarding solicitation of structured settlement annuitants. Does the same or similar standard that applies to marketing to seniors apply here? I know I’ve been barking about this for years. But where are we?