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: Rapid City Structured Settlements
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Payout Plus is a new structured settlements annuity option from Pacific Life that enhances financial stability and growth opportunities for claimants. By offering indexed-based payments, it provides a guaranteed minimum with potential fluctuations, catering to those receiving personal injury or workers’ compensation settlements, while promoting financial resilience and flexibility.
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The Periodic Payment Settlement of 1982, a public law that allows defendants to assign their obligations (via a “qualified assignment”) to make future periodic payments to a third party without retaining a future obligation to the injured party has benefits to all sides. Read more.
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Chariot Re’s initial reinsurance transaction is with a subsidiary of MetLife. Chariot Re will reinsure approximately $10 billion of liabilities, including structured settlement annuity contracts and group annuity contracts associated with pension risk transfers originated by MetLife.
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The words “certain” and “guaranteed” are terms used in settlement documents to describe payment obligations in a settlement agreement and in structured settlement annuities and other income annuities. Both are often used in a way that suggests the terms are synonymous, but are they?
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It isn’t right for structured settlement brokers and settlement planners to use misleading and/or inaccurate information in comparisons, to promote structured settlements;and to blame it on what is figuratively “the empty chair”, The Hartford.