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: Rockland Structured Settlements
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When savings accounts pay zero or confiscatory interest rates, they would seek out the exact type of safe yield that structured settlement payments provide to personal injury victims, wrongful death survivors and others who elect to receive structured settlements when their lawsuits settle.
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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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Qualified assignment paragraph 9, the IRC 130(c) unwind clause has from time to time given some defense lawyers “twisted blood” . An unwind of the qualified assignment might hurt the payee as well, if a qualified assignment release and pledge agreement ia used to give the payee a security interest
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Depending on the non qualified assignment facility used, non qualified structured settlements can be funded with annuities, United States Treasury obligations, professional money management (based on objective formula) and/or structured settlement payment rights.
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Period Certain in an annuity, means the number of years that the payments will be paid regardless of whether or not the payee of the structured settlement annuity (or retirement annuity) survives the entire payment schedule.
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Did you know that a structured settlement need not only be funded with an annuity? Treasury Funded Structured Settelments are among the other options.
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Today's financial literacy lesson concerns structured attorney fees, specifically where one of my industry colleagues flubs his lines when describing why to do them. He says "For married couples who file their taxes jointly under the present law, the highest marginal tax bracket surpasses 30 percent. A lawyer, who would have under normal circumstances earned a…
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Full market access, in cases involving single claimant qualified settlement funds, is an improbabilty. If your structured settlement broker or settlement planner claims to have full market access for single claimant qualified settlement funds, insist on proof in writing.
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CONSTRUCTIVE RECEIPT…Two big words. Add one fatal tax principle. Possible E&O Claim.