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: Portsmouth Structured Settlements
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Judge Charles Maxfield granted the long pending New York Life interpleader motion.Until the lawsuit is adjudicated, New York LIfe will make payments to the Court instead of to the structured settlement factoring companies; their investors and/or assignees,
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A disabled black man’s legal case, a 2015 lead story in the Washington Post, has languished for 7 years, delayed by parties who profited from buying his structured settlement payment rights for pennies, grossly disproportionate to the 24 months it took them to erode the victim’s financial security.
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Judge Maxfield seemed ambitious about getting the Taylor case moving from its languished state with a stack of 25 motions pending; he referred to the long delays as “shameful”. Maxfield’s ruled on a 5 year old motion to disqualify Heretick as Taylor’s camp intends to call Heretick as a witness..
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Unlike Captain Ahab’s white Moby Dick, this “whale” is a black man whose predators were white with white judges and white lawyers. While it took 2 years to obliterate millions of structured settlement payments in 11 transactions, there has been no progress in his legal case in 6 years..
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Heretick’s “legislative privilege” gun is running out of bullets. Time is counting down for Portsmouth, Norfolk and Chesapeake delegate Steve Heretick who lost to 26 year old Nadarious Clark in Virginia’s 79th District Democratic primary.
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Factoring company lawyer Stephen Heretick was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in November 2015. Heretick has used his legislative privilege to prevent the case from proceeding to some resolution, leaving an astounding 30 outstanding motions in the Terrence Taylor case!
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Defendant Stephen Heretick, a structured settlement factoring company lawyer and elected official of the Virginia house of delegates is the sole objector to keeping the Dockery class action in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Heretick is the central figure in the alleged scheme says the Complaint.
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Court Denies JG Wentworth, Seneca One and VA Lawyer Stephen Heretick Motions to Dismiss in RICO Case
Stephen Heretick allegedly took part in an ongoing scheme meant to induce annuitants to sell structured settlement payment streams on unfavorable terms, strip annuitants of rights to independent counsel, and fashion transfer petitions so they would be granted despite procedural safeguards.