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: Securities Exchange Commission
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News of yet another Ponzi scheme that purported be about structured settlements and wasn’t.
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These scams victimize investors NOT tort victims who are receiving structured settlement payments as part of the settlement of their law suits. Legitimate structured settlements funded with annuities can only be placed by insurance agents who are licensed in your state. It’s easy to verify.
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S 1389 is a Senate bill introduced by Ben Nelson D-Nebraska, a companion to House bill H.R. 2733 introduced by Gregory Meeks D-New York and Tom Price R-Georgia. Both bills seek to reverse the SEC decision to regulate indexed annuities as securities.
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Piccoli, 82, of Amherst, New York, a poor man’s Bernard Madoff who even bears an odd resemblance, was charged with running a multi-million dollar Ponzi Scheme that allegedly defrauded hundreds of Buffalo, NY area investors, including Catholic priests, parishes and parish members.
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The buzz phrase "Mark To Market" dominated the financial press in the last few weeks. The Federal bailout bill gives the United States’ Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) the power to suspend the mark-to-market accounting rule. But what is "mark to market" and what does it mean in terms of long term financial security? The Financial…
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by John Darer CLU ChFC CSSC The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today approved adopting rules on a 4-1 vote based on SEC proposed Rule 151A**, which is intended to regulate equity indexed annuity products as securities, rather than the non-securities treatment they have received to date. The effective date appears to be January…