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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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…
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United of Omaha Life Insurance Company! The Mutual of Omaha subsidiary is in the midst of a roll out which will offer greater choices to structured settlement recipients and increase the competitiveness of the structured settlement marketplace.
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Insurance agents, including structured settlement brokers, are prohibited from using the existence of a state Life & Health Insurance Guarantee Association to promote, solicit, or induce the purchase of any insurance product covered under the California Life & Health Insurance Guarantee Association Act.
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Don’t kill the client’s ability to do a structured settlement. Avoid torching all your hard work after a long day of settlement negotiations at mediation by blowing it on flawed “cookie cutter” settlement documentation! Be mindful of the constructive receipt doctrine
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Structured settlements that are funded with annuities can at best provide a fixed increase that must be determined when the structure is created, compounding annually. This is not bad, but it requires a level of clairvoyance that simply cannot be represented as a cost of living adjustment
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In assessing the risk tolerance of tort victims, at least one relevant question to ask is how they would feel if they invested a sum of money and a short time period later it was worth $X less (calculated at 5% loss) or $X less (calculated at 10% loss of capital)
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by John Darer CLU ChFC CSSC On March 16, 2008, The Wall Street Journal early edition reported that the once venerable Bear Stearns brokerage house has been sold to JP Morgan Chase for $2 a share. At its high in January 2007 the shares were priced at $170 per share. Thoughts for Consideration of an…