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: Seattle Structured Settlements
Seattle Structured Settlements includes blogs, news and commentary related to structured settlements and settlement planning that may be of interest to personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers in Miami Seattle and King County, or residents of King County that may be involved in lawsuits for personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice and seeking Structured Settlement planning advice and information from an experienced fluent structured settlements and settlement planning subject matter expert.
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New York Department of Insurance Office of General Counsel opined in 2007 that advertising contributions to Trial Lawyer Associations Was Also Unlawful. Yet some big donors that are structured settlement brokers often do, even in New York.
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Payment of (structured settlement) brokers’ commissions from out of the money Lexington paid for the annuities does not belie the facts that Lexington paid the amounts it quoted and that appellants received exactly those specific annuity payments the settlement agreements had promised,
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The S&P 500 does not back any structured settlement or periodic payments. “Backed” and “based” are two different things. “Based on an objective formula based on the performance of the S&P 500” does not equal “backed by the S&P 500”.
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Is the “Best Interest Test” in state structured settlement protection acts adequate to determine suitability of structured settlement factoring transactions, or should a Uniform Suitability standard be established that that places obligations on the settlement purchaser and/or their brokers or affiliates?
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Punitive damages (sometimes known as “exemplary damages”), are damages intended to reform or deter a defendant and other from engaging in conduct similar to that which formed the basis of the claims in a lawsuit.
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If Harvey Weinstein, accused by numerous women of sexual harassment (and in a few cases, assault, ends up negotiating settlements with his accusers, many settlements will be taxable. After paying legal fees and federal and state income taxes, it could leave a third or less to the victim depending on their attorney’s contingency fee agreement.
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It’s the well-established policy of the USA to oppose any attempt byan annuitant, payee or beneficiary to assign, transfer, sell, or factor annuity payments from an annuity contact owned by the United States, which was purchased as part of a structured settlement of an FTCA claim.
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Could insurance companies, including those that issue structured settlement annuities, offer more to their customers if a 16 year old revenue sapping regressive Federal tax were abolished?
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The fact that this employee of a structured settlement factoring company has more bingo related domains than some women have pairs of shoes makes a nice pivot for a settlement planning lesson
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It’s notable that the annuity agent on the Shaw case was Merrill Lynch Settlement Services, Inc. which appears to have utilized a cheap annuity from Executive Life, ignoring some unavoidable facts, apparently including Merrill Lynch internal guidelines.