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: Robert Ostrov
Robert Ostrov has been a General Magistrate for the 20th Judicial Circuit since 2018 and previously served in various judicial roles, including Hearing Officer, Administrative Law Judge, and arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and FINRA He previous served a number of structured settlement factoring companies Stuctured Asset Funding LLC, Peachtrree, Franklin Settlements, Woodbridge and Eagle Settlements covered by this blog including his unsuccessful 2016 run
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Maybe upon reflection, Robert Ostrov will realize that he was no “Eagle Scout”, leaving massive omitted gaps on his Linkedin profile wasn’t such a brilliant idea since it raised more questions than answers. And then there was lie about discount rates in his Peachtree days.
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Days away from the Palm Beach elections and Robert Ostrov is shameless in his efforts to deceive the voters of Palm Beach County by leaving material facts off his resume.
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Structured settlement lawyer Robert Ostrov is running for political office again and the South Florida press is all over his case. “On paper at least, it seems Palm Beach County judge candidate Robert L. Ostrov has rarely seen an industry with a not very judge-like reputation that he hasn’t capitalized on”.
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“I want to understand not only how this company (Access Funding) has been engaging in these practices, but also whether broader reforms are necessary to protect vulnerable families from dishonest financial predators.” Rep Elijah Cummings
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All in all both Franklin Settlements LLC and Ozark Funding LLC raise the eyebrow for the utter lack of consumer critical information that is the scourge of the structured settlement secondary market. A consumer should not have to go to such lengths to find who they’re dealing with.
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Most towns want to rid their street corners of “dealers”. Why not Palm Beach County home to the greatest cluster of “financial crack dealers” in the United States? Just because dealing it doesn’t carry a prison sentence doesn’t mean it’s any less lethal, financially speaking.
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Ostrov was the in house counsel at Peachtree when FLORIDA CITIZEN Patricia Chambers was jacked for 41.73% effective discount on the transfer of her periodic payments in March 2007. under Ostrov’s watch Peachtree falsely advertised that a consumer could get ” all of your money now “
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Mr. Ostrov’s absurd justification for ridiculously high structured settlement factoring discount rates, led to an email that fingers Ostrov, characterized as a poverty pimp, “the man who wants to be in our legislature, was there (at Peachtree Settlement Funding) at the time of the Patricia Chambers disgrace”.
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Ostrov attempted to justify the high structured settlement factoring discount rates, claiming it’s to “account for risk of default”, citing Executive Life, Reliance and Confederation Life. So why are such rates being charged for transfers of solid New York Life, Metropolitan Life and Pacific Life?
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Peachtree spin meisters boldly extol the virtues of adding a former Orange County (NY) Assistant DA to its “branches”, as if this will give the company, and by extension the structured settlement factoring industry, more credibility relating to the purchase or sale of structured settlement payment rights.