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: Plaintiff Structured Settlements
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Settlements for wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, failure to promote, ADEA and other employment lawsuits, represent taxable damages. Lawyers for employers and employees can bring efficient conclusion to employment cases by using non qualified structured settlements
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The Stockton situation illustrates how placing a substantial percentage of your settlement into a home is not always a good idea. Setting aside the cost of maintaining the home and taxes, let’s look at what might have happened to a Stockton, California plaintiff who bought a home at the median price.
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Levi Johnston, best known for putting a “bun” in Bristol Palin‘s “oven” and milking his 15 minutes of “fame” into a book, a reality show (and whatever else) for over $1 million, can actually teach young adults a useful lesson about financial planning and settlement planning. I’ll get to that in a minute. Levi Johnston…
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3 out of 5 companies incorrectly listed the Trust beneficiary as the secured party as opposed to the party to whom payments are to be made, despite clear naming of the secured party in the Settlement Agreement & Release and QARP that were executed by the annuity issuer’s qualified assignment company!
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The State of New Jersey has taken the position that money in a qualified settlement fund is an available source of income and resources for New Jersey Medicaid beneficiaries.
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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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Pacific Life Insurance Comapny began writing structured structured annuities in 2012. The company has been in the insurance business business since 1868. Structured settlement annuities are issued through Pacific Life & Annuity Company in New York and Pacific Life Insurance Company in all other states.
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A qualified assignment fee is an administrative charge by a qualified assignment company for taking on the obligation to make periodic payments from a Defendant or Defendant’s insurer as part of the process of setting up a structured settlement.
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Source: The SunAmerica Retirement Re-Set Study, July 2011 and Financial Planning News. Results based on an April 2011 Harris Interactive survey of 1,001 Americans over age 55. The importance of "guarantees over volatility" as shown in the results of this study are consistent with the Baby Boomer study which I wrote about earlier this month. We…
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Is the structured settlement broker the agent of the Defendant for purposes of “tender” in New York CPLR § 5003-a, or is it an agent of the insurance company? How about the independent contractor who is handling the administration for the structured settlement broker?