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: qualified funding asset
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Unlike Executive Life Insurance Company of New York where there is an insolvent assignmment company AND an insolvent annuity issuer, in the Reliance case there is a solvent life insurer and an insolvent qualified assignment company which is subject to a liquidation.
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The A.M.Best “A+” rating action concerning First Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company is great news for New York plaintiffs, particularly minors, incompetents or other cases where Court approval is required for structured settlements and the Court requires minimum third party ratings.
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It’s NOT simply buying a structured annuity and transferring the ownership of the annuity. The Court’s memorandum expressly states “purchased”. Neither the Defendants nor their Insurers purchase the structured settlement annuity where there is a qualified assignment. The Assignee does.
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What can you use to fund a structured settlement? Can you use “recycled” structured settlements? Purportedly a Private Letter Ruling request is afoot.
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An asset/liability mismatch caused by adverse taxation of annuities owned by non natural persons highlights one of the reasons why defendants and insurers and their settlement consultants must be certain that a qualified assignment meets each of the requirements of IRC 130(c)
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by Structured Settlement Watchdog "Why should defendants or liability insurers ever agree to settle a personal injury case using a structured settlement?" is the question posed by Patrick Hindert in the second of a multipart series " Structured Settlement Metrics". Hindert uses a national litigation management study as a new lever to attack national account structured settlement programs…
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It’s a bummer when seasoned settlement professionals publish incorrect information about basic structured settlement fundamentals.
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A structured settlement annuity may provide a contractual guarantee “to pay out for a lifetime”, however long that is. Depending on the age of the annuitant actual lifetime may exceed the maximum term of available bonds. With medical improvements and healthier living people are living longer.
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"Structured settlement annuities are as a (sic) result of broadly articulating litigation that’s occurred between parties where a (sic) economic award has been given by one party to another as a (sic) result of a court action". Source: Settlementblog.net Is an "broadly articulating litigation" something like a reticulated python? What if the "articulation" is itself…