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.
recent posts
- Structured Settlement Annuity Guarantees Help Financial Peace of Mind
- How Sheron Jones Was Exploited — And Why D.C.’s Failure to Mandate IPA in SSPA Enabled It
- Attorney Fee Structured Settlement Factoring
- One Year Later: The Structured Settlement–to–Bitcoin Anniversary Nobody Is Celebrating
- SettlementDecisions Episode 4: Purports to be a Directory-Delivers Spam Instead
about
Category: Recycled Structured Settlements
Recycled Structured Settlements was an early stage nickname for structured settlement receivables marketed as investments to investors. The use of the term Recycled implies a “reprocessing of waste materials for use in new products”conversion to reusable material” Source: Brittannica.com. Neither structured settlement factorng companies or payment servicing companies are insurance companies are creating an insurance product.
-
The hammer is coming down on the possibility of any investors in structured settlement receivables (factored structured settlement payment rights), deriving any benefit from insolvency protections designed to protect buyers and beneficiaries of legitimate annuities and life insurance.
-
How Is having a company, or a member associated with a company, whose acronym represents a scam label for factored structured settlement payment rights consistent with mission of the Society of the Settlement Planners?
-
Financial advisors, licensed insurance agents and settlement planners who sell “subsets” of structured settlement payment rights, athlete contracts and such as “secondary market annuities” to unsuspecting clients are creating significant potential errors and omissions exposure and worse.
-
It’s misleading because nobody can actually “buy structured settlements”. Structured settlements are a form of settlement not a product. For example a settlement can be resolved in consideration of a lump sum, periodic payments or a combination.. Structured settelments can be funded with an annuity.
-
The Barber case highlights the predatory practices of structured settlement factoring companies targeting a minor, Zach Barber, whose settlement was exploited for his father’s debts. Despite court orders protecting Zach, companies like Pinnacle and Sempra circumvented regulations, causing significant financial harm. This tragic situation serves as a cautionary tale for investors in structured settlements.
-
Colorado Springs Financial Planner Allan S. Roth’s concluded, based on his own personal experience, that he wouldn’t recommend investments in Structured Settlement Receivables #RecycledStructuredSttlements
-
40% of investors in factored structured settlement payments are hedge funds, 50% are life insurance companies and 10% individual investors. Would an audit shown rhedge funds and life insurers are profiting from some of the worst cases of financial rape of minorities, and retirees?
-
Connecticut plans to increase statutory protections for structured settlement annuitants in the event of insolvency of the annuity issuer effective October 1, 2019. The correction expressly excludes investors in structured settlement payment rights acquired through a structured settlement transfer.
-
The danger to investors in Structured Settlement Receivables Is very real and has always been there. Merchants of “Secondary Market Annuities” are fighting for clients and some for survival of businesses marketing investments as annuities when it is a dreadful misrepresentation.