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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In Continental Casualty et al. v United States of America et al, U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal) C-02-4891 and C02-5292, the plaintiffs unsuccessfully challenged the structured settlement policy of the United States. The underlying dispute was over whether or not the settlement agreed for the injured party, Ute Sistrunk, included a structured settlement. The…
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Settlement Professionals Inc. “pays all the costs of a QSF” says a statement made by plaintiffs in court documents in an Arizona case that involves the sale of an insurance product from American National Insurance Company. Does this violate Arizona law?
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You could say that the Captains and NCOs from FORGE Consulting need to go back to flight school. Check this out… FORGE Consulting says: "FORGE is a champion of the Qualified Settlement Fund (QSF), a valuable tool for plaintiffs, which holds their settlements tax-free, giving them time to make what is likely the most important…
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New York CPLR 5003-a does not address to the work of a structured settlement broker or settlement planner when it speaks of “tender” of payment
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Rev Proc 93-34 provides assurance that a designated settlement fund or qualified settlement fund will satisfy the “party to the suit or agreement” requirement set forth in IRC 130(c)(1), which is the part of the Internal Revenue Code governing qualified assignments in structured settlement transactions.
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‘Life Structured Settlements in New York is the latest made up term circulating in the blogosphere. What in the world is a “life structured settlement”?
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Some settlement planners suggest the use of a QSF to skirt around the approved list of annuity markets of the liability insurer, pitching that it will give the plaintiff a “full market survey” yet end up limiting the choices for clients, because few markets willing to take an assignment from a QSF.
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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…