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: Personal Injury Lawyer Ethics
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Personal injury lawyer in a position of superior knowledge and trust, takes financial advantage of a personal injury client by entering into a structured settlement factoring transaction using an offshore company controlled by the TX/LA lawyer, shafting the client for in excess of a $1 million spread, Gross!
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Factoring companies depend on a steady supply of structured settlements to survive. Factoring companies acquired by hedge funds and other entities have bloated cash reserves to tempt the wills of settlement brokers and settlement planners, lower their acquisition costs and satisfy their investors.
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Here’s a great example of how to ruin the public trust in your law firm through poor strategic thinking. First I receive a solicitation from a Tennessee law firm I’ve never heard of, Buxton law Firm in Oak Ridge, TN.Download buxton_law_firm_factoring_solicitation.pdf The Buxton Law firm website clearly states "Buxton Law Firm is a civil litigation…
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Trickie “Dickie” saved the tax payers a whole lot a money by “copping a plea” for judicial bribery. Does he have more or less grace than Bill Lerach, Robert Risk?If you’re going to put it out there you’ve got to make some sense in the first place.
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Settlement Capital’s The Factoring Channel podcast discusses the importance of full disclosure in structured settlement factoring compensation for brokers. Mark Wahlstrom and General Counsel Matt Bracy highlight that while brokers add value, their compensation can impact the tort victim’s finances. Transparency is crucial, as many overlook the ethical implications in this largely unregulated industry.
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Any money paid in commissions to structured settlement firms, settlement planners, personal injury lawyers, bankruptcy lawyers and financial planners comes right out of the tort victim’s bottom line.
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These firms are known to pay commissions and/or fees on referrals for structured settlement factoring transactions. This post is about those who take these fees and don’t make an upfront disclosure of such fees and how it impacts the bottom line of tort victims on these transactions
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Fawning over the “grace” of Bill Lerach still lead story at the “Super Settlement Planning”, pulpit of Robert Risk, a Tulsa structured settlement broker and “tough issues tackler”. What of Bill Lerach’s “plea copping” arouses Risk where “copped pleas” of Dickie Scruggs and Melvyn Weiss do not?