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: “Secondary Market Annuity” Risk
The term secondary market annuity is a false identity acribed to structured settlement receivables by marketers of those instruments. Investments in structured settlement receivables are not investments in annuities and such investments fail to meet the defiinition of annuity in most states statutes. Most investors are not aware of the risk including the lack of statutory protections that might otherwise be available to them had they bought a real annuity.
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The danger to investors in Structured Settlement Receivables Is very real and has always been there. Merchants of “Secondary Market Annuities” are fighting for clients and some for survival of businesses marketing investments as annuities when it is a dreadful misrepresentation.
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These examples of bad business conduct by structured settlement originators demonstrate possible reputation and financial risk factors for the settlement planners and the lawyers who refer them to their clients that may not been disclosed or even considered.
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Legitimate structured settlement transfer order by one judge in Kings County NY (2014) but another judge’s denial of another petition resulted in restraining order that hurt investors in the 2014 factored structured settlement payment streams and were in limbo for hundreds of thousands for 6 years..