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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- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
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Category: Secondary Market Structured Settlements
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners implicitly stated in its Statutory Issue Paper 160 that acquired structured settlement payment rights are not an annuity. Investors beware!
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Recycled structured settlement payment streams (structurred settlement receivables) are not a suitable replacement for traditional structured settlements. Because the structured settlement receivable is taxable and also fraught with risk, the deal is not as good as advertised
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A retiree , the vast majority of whose net worth was placed in a structured settlement derivative misrepresented as an annuity, has filed a claim with FINRA against a Portland Oregon financial firm. The Oregon firm allegedly took an order from the retiree’s wife, despite no written legal authority to speak with the wife about…
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Buffalo-based settlement planning firm and structured settlement brokerage, Milestone Consulting, also as an origination firm for structured settlement transfers, according to email correspondence from its CEO to one of our sources in October 2018.
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Disabled individuals are being treated like animals (cash cows) and financially exploited by buyers of structured settlement receivables, who then sell the receivables obtained by exploitation of disabled individuals, to investors. many of whom are senior citizens who are exploited into using retirement funds to buy structured settlement payment rights through deception. The investors are…
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AIG has a registered trademark that includes the terms Assured and Annuity. That registration 3722046, effective December 8, 2009, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, about 4 years before Genex Capital “stepped on a duck” by famously announcing a partnership with itself.
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If these folks actually bought an annuity, instead of the scam labeled derivative investments that they were sold, they wouldn’t be incurring the additional costs, aggravation or uncertainty.
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Poaching of structured settlement annuitants continues to be a highly sensitive issue for some structured settlement factoring companies while proponents say it’s needed to make sure annuitants aren’t getting ripped off by the structured settlement buyers.
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All that Glitters Isn’t Gold, or at least the “less than 10 carat” Gold IRA Guide, which uses the scam label, SMA (Secondary Market Annuity) for structured settlement derivatives.