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.
recent posts
- 🔥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)
- ⭐ THE 18–25 GUIDE TO STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS
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Category: New York State Trial Lawyers Association
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As things stand today, every dollar of pain and suffering is worth more in present value in a structured judgment than the jury verdict.
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The 4th Department unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated in the decision at Supreme Court. Today most carriers understand the value that a settlement intermediary with transition expertise, retained by them, or a plaintiff or plaintiff’s lawyer, brings to the table
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The scene at National Arbitration and Mediation in Manhattan felt surreal, with individuals in wheelchairs and emotionally burdened families juxtaposed against a loud game show atmosphere. This dissonance highlighted the serious nature of their situation, especially as Florida-based companies pushed residents to sell structured settlements for less than their worth.
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The Master’s Structured Settlement Consultant (MSSC) is an advanced credential earned by qualified structured settlement consultants and settlement planners from NSSTA and the Stayer Center for Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame (currently University of Texas at Austin)
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Offshore assignment company assumes future periodic payment obligations from qualified settlement funds (or defendants ) and funds the obligations to plaintiffs and lawyers, using a “patchwork quilt” of structured settlement receivables in lieu of structured settlements annuities.
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Cash now pushers routinely pay bribes to structured settlement annuitants as an inducement to sell their valuable future payment rights. Absence of anti-kickback legislation has resulted in kickback frequency of epic proportions, staggering in proportion to the anti-kickback limits of other legitimate financial business
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A Certified Financial Transitionist may help.plaintiffs facing the need to make life impacting financial decisions during a period of heightened stress.Transition stress can impair the decision making process, perhaps even leading to a frozen state where making a decision seems impossible.
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Efforts of AAPD, Congressmen Cartwright and Sensebrenner are appreciated, but they and their colleagues must do more to protect disabled structured settlement annuitants. States must do more. It is not simply the matter of education. New laws must be passed to better protect them
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The welcome news that New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte has introduced Senate Bill 2377, the “Don’t Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act.” Senator Ayotte’s bill would amend Section 104(a)(4), to apply to public safety officers and their dependents should include a companion amendment to IRC 130,the section that refers to qualified assignments .