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
- Daily Rates Are Often an Important Cost Driver of Structured Settlements
- 🔥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)
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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by Structured Settlement Watchdog This in from one of our readers who alerted us to the following after reading yesterday’s post Structured Settlement Annuity in One Wordy “Inarticulate Articulation”” “This also from Settlementblog.net on what I thought was the seminal text on our industry: “Structured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments” is a great book about…
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The "Bounce Rate" for readers of the S2KM blog "Beyond Structured Settlements" is ridiculously high for someone who is the author of what was once considered the seminal text for structured settlements. With a 1 month bounce rate of 73.5%, close to 3/4 of Patrick Hindert's readers go "bye bye" after hitting the landing page.…
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Hindert’s hypocrisy for silence on (1) factoring business being done by industry members in recent years on the “down low” ,or (2) the signed affidavits under penalty of perjury of substantial defense work to be listed with the USDOJ while telling plaintiff attorneys and plaintiffs (in order to get their business at the expense of…
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There has been alot of news about AIG of late, but not a peep from Patrick Hindert The mud mongerer of last Fall whipped up an AIG structured settlement timeline in September 2008 and, in a ten-day adrenaline-fueled blur that October, birthed an AIG structured settlement wiki. What was once merely half-baked is now fully…
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A wiki is server software that enables users to create and edit web content collaboratively. While it supports community knowledge sharing, its use in the structured settlement industry is limited. Wikis often become outdated and cumbersome, making modern blogs more attractive due to their richer content and superior usability.
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I don’t think it is reasonable to dismiss the anecdotal evidence or personal observations of the settlement planner, structured settlement broker or a personal injury lawyer who has represented hundreds or thousands of plaintiffs
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Pardon me for being sophomoric but can't stop giggling about this headline long enough to write a post. You get the drift.
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One should not be surprised that according to Alexa, the majority of the search terms driving traffic to Beyond Structured Settlements, Patrick Hindert's S2KMBlog, have to do with factoring and really are "beyond structured settlements". Such terms includes: JG Wentworth, buy structured settlement, purchase structured settlement, purchasing structured settlement and buy structured settlements. The largest…
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When someone spends so much time discussing wikis, like S2KM’s Patrick Hindert, you’d expect the information on those wikis to be current. Unfortunately, many of the S2KM wikis, such as the one about AIG, feel neglected and outdated.