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 Settlement Fund
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Developing story…
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With respect to “no cost ” qualified settlement funds Counsel for the Arkansas Insurance Department, faced with the same set of facts presented to NY, stated: “After reviewing the NY Department’s opinion, I am of the opinion that the Arkansas Insurance Code would prohibit the activity
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Some settlement professionals have purportedly advised attorneys and their clients to introduce a "slight of hand" variant to settlement proceedings that could end up having the marginal utility of running into a swinging sledge hammer. ******* Should you follow the cookie cutter advice of settlement planning professionals who suggest that you take the defendant's or…
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The current system places too much emphasis in the wrong area. Any structured settlement broker or settlement planner has access to all 10 of the annuity issuers admitted in New York State. More emphasis should be placed on the quality of the plan presented along with the petition.
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Helpful hints to those looking for accurate structured settlement information on the Internet.
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Full market access, in cases involving single claimant qualified settlement funds, is an improbabilty. If your structured settlement broker or settlement planner claims to have full market access for single claimant qualified settlement funds, insist on proof in writing.
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The next time you get a piece of The Rock, it won’t include a single claimant qualified settlement fund. Prudential Insurance Company of America dealt a blow to promoters when it announced that it will no longer write structured settlement annuities stemming from single claimant qualified settlement funds (“QSF”)
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What a brilliant strategy! Is NYU law student Jeremy Babener being used as a "cheap but erudite tool" of those who collectively have hundreds of thousands of dollars vested in a project to convince Treasury to issue guidance as to IRC 468B concerning the use of single claimant qualified settlement funds, but have seen those efforts…
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Qualified settlement funds involving a single claimant were once heavily promoted by single claimant “QSF jockeys” as a method to get around insurance company approved lists and get a “full market survey”, The reality is anything but today. The status quo has changed.
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As part of this author’s desire to establish best practices guidelines for structured settlement brokers and settlement planners this author and others have followed up the recent opinions of the New York State Insurance Department with similar requests to the insurance departments in other states. Eventually it is hoped that opinions will be obtained from…