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: Oregon Structured Settlement Investments
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The use of the term secondary market annuity by certain merchants to solicit an investor (such as trial lawyers, personal injury victims and retirees to buy structured settlement payment rights is self indulgent twaddle.
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If the payee entered into the structured settlement within 5 years prior to the date of the transfer agreement, then the transferee must provide notice to the payee’s attorney of record at the time the structured settlement was created California Code, Insurance Code – INS § 10139.5(f)(2)(L)
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When a structured settlement is factored to raise cash for a Payee, no annuity policy changes hands. Just the rights to payments. The individual receiving structured settlement payments representing his or her damages is no more the owner of an annuity contract than the investor.
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The tertiary market has pounded more nails in the coffin of settlement planners’ aspirations to bastardize the qualified assignment process using unqualified funding assets.
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Investors in structured settlement receivables face unfavorable news. As of July 1, 2020, the Maryland Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Corp clarified there is no protection in cases of annuity issuer insolvency and liquidation.