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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But perhaps the most gelastic suggestion of Arnold’s was ‘ self-policing” while addressing an industry whose sales and solicitation practices are unregulated. The secondary market for structured settlements has a very poor record of self-policing. There is no justification for that to continue.
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Hindert’s commentary often engenders a narrow focus on growth of the personal injury market, but fails to recognize other products and solutions offered by NSSTA members, both within and outside of the personal injury space, both within and outside of litigation solutions,
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Structured settlement consultants who continue to cite an industry certification program (that DID NOT require matriculation at the University of Notre Dame) as if they attended the University of Notre Dame,or University of Texas at Austin (post Pandemic) are misleading.
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Not everyone appreciates what their trade association does for them or their industry, or where their dues go, so I wanted to share a recent instance where the National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA) stepped in to help protect structured settlement annuitants.
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According to certain folks’ websites and/or LinkedIn profiles they completed their CSSC at “Notre Dame University”, which is located in Zouk Mosbeh Lebanon. There’s also a campus in Shouf, which was the scene of a lovely Christmas recital on December 20, 2012. Details! Details! Details!
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NSSTA says that as part of efforts to assure that all ELNY “shortfall” payees have an opportunity to pursue recovet from ELNY Hardship Fund, the Fund administrators at JAMS have begun contacting owners of ELNY annuities that fund buy-and-hold settlements. In other words “JAMS on it”.
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The National Underwriter posting on structured settlement reform reveals that while quite a lot of research was done, some of it is downright shambolic. Figuratively speaking, there seems to have been an over judicious imbibing of Patrick Hindert’s “Kool Aid”.
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The National Structured Settlements Trade Association has been assisting JAMS, the administrator of the ELNY Hardship Fund, as it has developed an application process and eligibility criteria, seeking to assure that the $100 million available for distribution provides as much protection as possible for those ELNY annuity payees who most need it. As part of…
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by John Darer CLU ChFC CSSC RSP The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), seeking public comment concerning Medicare Set Aside Arrangements and protecting Medicare's interest with respoect to claims in "automobile and liability insurance (including self-insurance), no-fault insurance, and workers' compensation when future medical care…