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.
recent posts
- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
- Canonical: Non‑Qualified Assignment (NQA)
- ⭐ THE 18–25 GUIDE TO STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS
about
Category: Patrick Hindert
Patrick Hindert is a veteran leader in the structured settlement industry with over 40 years of experience, currently serving as a Senior Advisor at Independent Life and a recognized expert in national professional associations
This Harvard Law Graduate was the Managing Director of S2KM Ltd. and The Settlement Services Group. As a leader in the structured settlement industry for more than three decades, Hindert frequently speaks at several national conferences on the subject. He also authors a structured settlement blog and co-authors a legal treatise relied upon by structured settlement professionals far and wide.
Hindert self resported that the Natioanl azssociation of Settlement Purchasrs bestowedthe Alexander Hamilton for service to the structured settlement factoring industry and controversially opined that factoring was the key to structured settlement industry growth beginning in the mid 2000s His profile still appears on the website of Strategic Capital Corporation
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Our “assiduous research” has only uncovered published statement (by a factoring company) which uses the 95% in 5 years dissipation assertion, with no factual support. The factoring company (which published the claim, was challenged to prove its claim and failed to do so.
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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
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Do we expect too much from our trade associations? Patrick Hindert raises some interesting points in his discussion of healthcare reform in a generally well written article posted on the S2KM blog. The good however, is tainted by Hindert’s customary bashing of the settlement industry trade associations educational programs following his return from some other trade…
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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…
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Which brings me to my point about the relevance of Qualified Settlement Funds and an audience of factoring companies and intermediaries. Where is the link?
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Turkewitz makes the witty observation that “the bar for attorney advertising has been lowered to new depths. It now appears to rest six feet under”, what is interesting about his post is his observation about how in this modern day bad business practices get effectively dealt with on the internet.
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Hindert’smiscalculation of the amount of damages (as a scare tactic) in Spencer v Hartford, “made” professor Adam Scales “a household name”, and now emboldened by a proposed settlement to suggest that such case be “prostituted” and used as a threat to scare defendants into 468B trusts.
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Some say that Patrick Hindert must have been hallucinating for alleging that motivational speaker Dan Clark dropped an F-Bomb during his presentation at the 2010. NSSTA annual meeting. It seems to be very much the case of “What-u Talking About”?
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“Web 2.0” had a prominent role in nipping the false Rothstein narrative in the bud. This author called for an NSSTA “media SWAT team” several years ago. The important thing to take way is that while this “operation” was not a NSSTA operation, it worked.