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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- New Jersey Structured Settlement Factoring Reform NJ A5695 — Tighter Rules for Structured Settlement Cash Now
- Daily Rates: An Important Cost Driver of Structured Settlements
- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- 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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Todd Lesk was as enthiastic apromoter of structured settlement receivables (that Lesk misbranded as annuities} as “Grandpa” is about his plump, sausage-like fingers in the MJ Structured Settlement Annuities’ YouTube ad. Fast forward, and the toll-free number for MJ now says it’s out of service.
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Expect to see more litigation against structured settlement factoring companies and others advising people who can ill afford risk to sell their stable income structured settlements at a big loss and alone or in tandem with other advisers put them into riskier investments.
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The structured settlement secondary market currently poses carries significant financial and reputation risk for participants in the unregulated market segment where there is no licensing and no regulator of its sales practices.
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Have beefy ex-Military or para-military henchmen and private investigators really been showing up at the doors of structured settlement annuitants having second thoughts about going through with selling structured settlement for cash?
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What is going on with JG Wentworth, the dominant purchaser of structured settlement payment rights from annuitants? JGW stock closed November 10, 2015 at $3.07,down over 24% in one day and about 38.6% in 5 days. Down about 75% since its IPO.
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Is it kosher for an appointed agent of a structured annuity issuer to compete against that company and its other appointed agents with structured settlement payment rights acquired directly in the structured settlement secondary market (“structured settlement receivables”)?
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What happens when the assignee finds out that the structured settlement transferee has breached their contract with the investor because the order which gave them the right to receive payments was procured on the basis of a fraud? What if the investor is another injured party?
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The Washington Post’s Terrence McCoy’s thoughtful in depth expose attempts to shine a bright light on what he calls the little-noticed, effectively unregulated netherworld of structured settlements”. The unique confluence of factors in Maryland constitutes the “perfect storm of bad stuff”,