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: Novation Settlement Solutions | Novation Funding Commentary
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Payments are arriving 1 month late, resulting in Cathy incurs $200+ in late fees each month and credit is affected. She lives in fear that the power will be shut off or lose where she lives. It sucks that Cathy “feels in constant jeopardy” when this wasn’t the case when the payment arrived on schedule.
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In October 2015, Novation Settlement Solutions exploited a young Black New Yorker through a structured settlement transaction, earning over $1.4 million. They misrepresented questions as “facts” in promoting structured settlements, failing to adequately inform clients. This misleading approach emphasizes the company’s questionable motives in financial dealings.
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Novation Settlement Solutions claims interest rates are going up when they’re actually going down. Novation’s rising interest rate ad is a scam. Don’t fall for it. If your structured settlement was secured when rates were higher don’t let unlicensed secondary market sales people take advantage of you
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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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It is notable that Novation Funding used a different DBA for each of its structured settlement transfer petitions with Plude in Connecticut. One wonders how many other structured settlement annuity issuers, owners or qualified assignees intervene in structured settlement transfers?
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Novation Funding advanced money to a NY quadriplegic 4 times in the space of 2 years, then sued the 50 year old after the New Yorker refused to move forward. Purportedly an address in another state was set up by Novation in contemplation for the transfer and Shaw felt he was getting scammed.