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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- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
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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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What are the risks of investing in structured settlement payment rights or structured settlement receivables?
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Acquired structured settlement payment rights ARE NOT annuities. They are are receivables. Labeling receivables as annuities is inaccurate. What a pity that New Jersey CPA Bruce Cox used his professional CPA credentials to spread the falsehood.
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What can you use to fund a structured settlement? Can you use “recycled” structured settlements? Purportedly a Private Letter Ruling request is afoot.
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Consumers may not understand that they get one set of protections when buying an annuity or receiving an annuity funded structured settlement, different protections when buying a variable annuity and unclear protections when buying structured settlement payment rights
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Before purchasing structured settlement payment rights do your homework, which includes a thorough analysis of your current and anticipated liquidity needs. Remember these are not annuities.
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Are settlement consultants and settlement planners getting involved with structured settlement securitizations in any way?” That includes as investors or directly, or indirectly, placing their clients into structured settlement securities/securitizations in private or registered securities transactions?
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One of the risks of investing in factored structured settlement payment streams (a/k/a recycled structured settlements, mislabeled secondary market annuities), run the risk of payments stopping if the court order is vacated, or there is a problem with the payment servicer as in 2024 SuttonPark Nightmare
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Before you get crushed in the “stampede” to obtain structured settlement payment rights based on this misleading display, consider that the so-called “annual payout rate” is deceptive marketing fluff by Somerset. Read more by clicking through.
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The fact that both the financial advisor testified under oath that they invested in structured settlement annuities draws the logical conclusion what verbiage was used to sell multiple times to The Walls by the adviser and Altium and, as a result of those solicitations, what The Walls believed they were buying.