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: 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.
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Adler’s Insurance Agency of Spring Valley NY is pushing structured settlement derivatives (recycled structured settlements) to settling personal injury victims with deceptive information. Adler attempts to pass off structured settlement derivatives as having the same tax status as structured settlements paid as compensation for damages to the personal injury victim.
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Is it kosher for an appointed agent of a structured annuity issuer to compete against that company and its other appointed agents with structured settlement payment rights acquired directly in the structured settlement secondary market (“structured settlement receivables”)?
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Somerset Wealth Strategies and Bulbrook-Drislane run distribution channels for structured settlement payments rights targeted to individual investors and their financial advisers.
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Annuity Straight Talk’s Bryan Anderson completely misrepresents the financial ratings of John Hancock, MetLife, Allstate and Prudential as AAA when they are not. Isn’t the purpose of due diligence to confirm all material facts in regards to a sale?
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Increasing sales of structured settlement receivables by settlement planners and plaintiff structured settlement advisers who profess to be fiduciaries, has brought a potential conflict of interest question to the fore.
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Buying structured settlement receivables is not the same as receiving a structured settlement when a lawsuit settles. Payment rights are also known as recycled structured settlements, factored structured settlements and unfortunately and inaccurately, by the scam label secondary market annuities.
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Secondary market “annuities”, which are not even annuities, can and will unravel if the applicable federal and state laws governing the underlying structured settlement factoring transactions have not been complied with
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More primary structured settlement players and settlement planners in particular, are overt in their participation in the structured settlement secondary market. In my opinion transparency is a good thing. Read more.
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Like virtually all alternative investments, structured settlement receivables come with significant risks and problems that may not be understood by or explained to investors”says Page Perry LLC, an Atlanta law firm that specializes in investment fraud.
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California Attorney Eugene Ahtirski’s statement triggers concerns that some investors in ” secondary market recycled structured settlements may not really know what they are getting into. Does anybody feel that this is a good thing?