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: Patrick Hindert Narashkeit
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Where Pat Hindert Sees Bleak I see Strands of Optimism. The fact is that structured settlement industry premium is up 7% year over year, It’s worth noting that production increased despite the withdrawal of two companies from the market in February 2013.
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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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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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No AIG strctured settlement annuity issuer received a bailout. Neither American General Life Insurance Company, American International Life Assurance Company of NY(now United States Life Insurance Company in the City of NY) received a bailout. Characterizing it otherwise is total BS.
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If the average person needs a degree from MIT or Caltech to decipher the thing, how useful is the concept map? Surely there are better ways to illustrate structured settlement concepts to convey the message to an audience.
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The important thing for Hartford Life annuitants is that Hartford Life Insurance Company IS NOT going out of business. It has only ceased writing new business in the stuctured settlement annuity market segment.
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Single product “structured settlement agents” are under attack in a recent diatribe. Is there really such a thing as a “single product agent”, or it just the matter of “sticking to your knitting”? Can a company that offers a single product be successful? Can it be successful in the future?
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When the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released its Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures ; the estimated tax revenue loss for structured settlements was not be as big as previously thought, The JCT estimate of structured settlement tax revenue loss was “de minimis”
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Structured Settlement Certification and Training: Hindert Questions Course Using Text He Co-Authored
Patrick Hindert’s latest pedantic rant on Business Standards and Practices-2 attacks the NSSTA Certified Structured Settlement Consultant certification hosted at University of Notre Dame. He states: “Advanced training” for those structured settlement broker/consultant/agents who are members of NSSTA (“America’s largest association of structured settlement professionals”) may include a one-time one weekend “certification” program (CSSC) at…