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: New York State Trial Lawyers Association
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Lead plaintiff John Griffiths and I got ahead of this, making the discovery in Fall 2014. The 2015 class action filed by Marcus & Auerbach led to what can only be seen as a positive result for over 4,000 annuitants. Nobody lost money, no money was in imminent danger and this was nipped in the…
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Structured settlement buyers want you to be their chum. But you know what happens when there is blood in the water. Structured settlement sharks will rip your payments in half and savage your financial future. Check out the new public service message from the Structured Settlement Watchdog.
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Buffalo-based settlement planning firm and structured settlement brokerage, Milestone Consulting, also as an origination firm for structured settlement transfers, according to email correspondence from its CEO to one of our sources in October 2018.
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If one is acting as a fiduciary of an investor, one is in an adversarial position to the seller. If one is acting as an agent of the seller then as an adversary, one cannot be a fiduciary of the buyer, or assignee. Structured settlement agency also originates secondary market transfers.
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McMillan alleges that Seneca One, LLC, Structured Asset Funding and Settlement Capital Services Plus LLC engaged in civil theft, exploitation of the disabled and a systematic scheme to defraud him and the Court in Sumter County in the NY to Florida forum shopping case.
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AIG Structured Settlement Class Action Dismissed With Prejudice | Ezell v Lexington Insurance et al.
Plaintiffs failed to prove a Civil RICO conspiracy and failed to prove fraudulent misrepresentation claim an thus claims against all defendants were dismissed with prejudice.
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DRB Capital established a whistleblower fund to pay off informants who drop dime and help prove violations of laws in connection with buying structured settlement payment rights, tax code violations, violations of state structured settlement protection acts, improper forum shopping, violations of federal deceptive and unfair trade practices acts, and federal excise tax evasion.
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The term Settlement Exchange or Structured Settlement Exchange, implies a regulated marketplace. The truth is the opposite. To be legitimate any exhnage must be independently operated and managed, not tied to any structured settlement general agency, by common ownership, affiliation or otherwise.
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Why should any factoring company representatives, or factoring companies themselves, be exempt from licensing and regulation when they hold themselves out to the public as “structured settlement brokers, structured settlement consultants, experts etc”. and giving financial advice?
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The structured settlement secondary market is an unregulated morass. Why does Dan Cevallos, a felon and a FINRA banned person get to operate Advance Funding LLC, on Wall Street, in a space where they can take advantage of people who cannot afford to lose?