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: Misinformation about Structured Settlement Factoring
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Structured settlement factoring companies such as those listed in Leonard’s Argle-Bargle for Top Ten Reviews, are not licensed insurance companies and do not issue structured settlement annuities. It’s all a bit overcooked.
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The annuity that funds the structured settlment is not owned by the payee, it is owned by the qualified assignment company. In a structured settlement transfer, the annuity does not get transferred or purchased. What is bought and sold is the structured settlement payment rights
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It took Buffalo Business First two sentences to completely flub structured settlements in profiling CrowFly, a local firm, co-founded by its current CEO Nita Bhatia and Milestone Consulting’s John Bair and Tony Barnes.
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Vintage Equity Group’s attempt to hijack several pending Peachtree structured settlement factoring petitions is a masterclass in laughable absurdity. It’s a prime example of the relentless and aggressive tactics used to coax structured settlement annuitants into selling their structured settlement payments.
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In Private Letter Ruling PLR-119273-97, the IRS concluded that the lump sum received from the sale of structured settlement payment rights retained the same tax treatment that it was accorded prior to the structured settlement factoring transaction.
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It’s disappointing when so-called experts providing independent professional advice on structured factoring transactions, don’t articulate their business properly. How can any consumer feel confident in such IPA when you consider the following, from a California Structured Settlement IPA?
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Because the structured settlement factoring industry offers no professional credentialing programs, some of its members (the “Slap Ons”) have slapped on labels or credentials they have not earned or have appropriated from the primary market, Don’t be bamboozled.
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Structured settlement annuities cannot be bought and sold however, the right to receive structured settlement payments can be bought and sold. It’s a critical distinction for investors who may be misled into thinking they are buying an annuity with its associated protections.
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When all a selling annuitant can get from a structured settlement funding company is pennies on the dollar, that smells worse than socks without shoes that have ambled around the tawny-peppered streets of San Francisco on a warm day, excrementally speaking.