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: RSL Funding
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A Houston court ruling favored RSL Funding over Peachtree Settlement Funding and others, allowing RSL to poach structured settlement deals. The court dismissed claims against RSL for tortious interference and mandated Peachtree to pay $651,463 in legal fees. The decision ignites debate over the fairness of poaching in structured settlements.
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John Griffiths was the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Aviva and Athene. Athene agreed to provide annuitants a CMA. Some annuitants received a modest financial recovery. A needless, unfortunate episode for the insurers, underscoring the need to be vigilant when insurers transition, or runoff their product lines.
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Important win for structured settlement annuitants in need of liquidity down the road, who cannot tap other sources. TX appellate court upheld annuitant’s right to continue seeking competitive offers, apparently allowing competitors to figuratively, “cut in during the middle of a dance”
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RSL Funding secured a court victory against Imperial Structured Settlements in a Texas case concerning tortious interference. The court ruled that consumers can seek competitive offers until a structured settlement transfer is court-approved, emphasizing that no enforceable contract exists until then. RSL maintains that competition benefits customers.
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It is no coincidence that the leading two structured settlement factoring companies invest substantial amount of money on saturation advertising campaigns that are memorable but universally annoying.
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It is critical that structured settlement cash now pushers’ behavior be exposed and documented. It just does not seem right that some poor bastard needs to be shackled to an noncompetitive cash now pusher.
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Judges in some New York jurisdictions require evidence of competitive shopping on infants compromise cases prior to approving a structured settlement. So why not require a reasonable amount of competitive shopping when someone is seeking Court approval to liquidate them.
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RSL Funding has “lifted its leg” on the Imperial Holdings and Peachtree Settlement Funding fire hydrants, with a press release announcing an office opening that is tantamount to leaving a “scent mark” on the latter two cash now pushers’ Boca Raton Florida territory.
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Several structured settlement cash now pushers continue to misrepresent that they give structured “annuity quotes”. In doing so, they are making the false implication that they are licensed insurance agents or brokers.
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Trouble in the structured settlement factoring industry “sandbox” as RSL Funding issues a press release referring to the Imperial Holdings,LLC Initial Public Offering as a “Repeat of the Dot.com bust” and stating the stock was “overvalued”.