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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No licensing required to be in the structured settlement factoring business, no continuing education requirements. Unlike any other financial service segment, there’s no regulatory body to oversee how consumers are approached and solicited. Absolutely nothing to define what activity is a conflict of interest. Is this a solid foundation for a “unified marketing strategy”?
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There is a tacit acknowledgment by NASP that some of its members and/or non-members are engaging in unethical conduct.
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Potential abuse of Qualified Settlement Funds observed by a leading settlement tax authority.
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That being said, who was responsible for placing all of Mr. Arensdorf’s structured settlement with ELNY in 1984? What was their rationale in doing so for someone as profoundly disabled as Glenn Arensdorf when this was all Glenn Arensdorf had?
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Do Qualified Settlement Funds really offer plaintiffs “UNLIMITED” time to address investments,including structured settlements?
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What are the risks of investing in structured settlement payment rights or structured settlement receivables?
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A structured settlement IS an appropriate solution for many litigation scenarios, not just personal injury or workers compensation. But like a good medication, it needs to be dispensed in an appropriate dosage.
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What a macabre sense of irony! “Claimants, policyholders,.interested parties in the affairs of Executive Life Insurance Co of NY “(ELNY”), or their counsel have been invited “to.show cause” before Supreme Court Nassau County to discuss the “death” of ELNY on “The Ides of March”?
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Watch contemporaneous testimony from May 1991, of California’s John Garamendi and Salvatore Curiale, of the New York Insurance Department* testified before a House Ways and Means Sub-Committee on the collapse of Executive Life Insurance Company and ELNY