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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by John Darer CLU ChFC MSSC CeFT RSP CLTC As more structured settlement designs reference external indices such as CPI‑U, the terminology used to describe them has expanded. Words like index‑linked, index‑based, and occasionally index‑backed appear in product materials and industry discussions, sometimes without clear differentiation. This brief guide provides a neutral, carrier‑friendly framework to…
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Ironically, when you sell structured settlement payments for the best you’re gonna get…”pennies on the dollar”, you’re closer to the past tense of the ” F” word and Butthead Nirvana, than a score of a big cash windfall that some structured settlement factoring companies promise,
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8 years after Terrence Taylor filed a lawsuit that made national headlines, after numerous motions, copious amounts of legislative privilege, recusals of a judicial circuit. an existential occurrence ( the Colonial pipeline hack) led to 5 months more delay, the rubber is finally hittng the road and Taylor will have at least 2 days in…
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The discount rate the educated annuitant negotiated was sub 5%! It shows that if you must go down the road of parting ways with stable tax free structured settlement income you absolutely must shop around. The company that low balled you might actually pay the most when in competition.
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It is notable that Novation Funding used a different DBA for each of its structured settlement transfer petitions with Plude in Connecticut. One wonders how many other structured settlement annuity issuers, owners or qualified assignees intervene in structured settlement transfers?
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In some jurisdictions, a person afflicted with lead paint poisoning is automatically considered disabled and unable to enter into contracts.
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The State of Maryland has applied the chastity belt of structured settlement protections including mandatory registration and a surety bond requirement that went into effect in October 2016.
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Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has contested six proposed structured settlement factoring transactions that unregistered corporations filed in Maryland state court to buy structured settlement payment rights, spurring the withdrawal of five of the petitions.
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Maryland Court of Appeals has now approved the structured settlement factoring reforms much to the chagrin of leadership in the structured settlement secondary market
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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.