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: Servicing of Structured Settlements
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A Structured Settlement Transfer Agreement may include written notice to you that a Servicing Arrangement may be required by the Annuity Issuer? Pay attention! A Servicing Arrangement may encumber the future assignment of the unassigned portion of the settlement payment
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I’m researching demographics of investors who invested in structured settlement receivables sold to the investors as annuities (e.g. secondary market annuities, inforce annuties) in the approach by financial planners (incl.settlement planners) who’ve suffered SuttonPark Payment Servicing Delays. I want to know your stories.
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Following are links to blog posts I published between August and October 2009, more than 15 Years ago fuguratively “banging the pots and pans” on structured settlement payment servicing.. The obvious question now is why this hasn’t been comprehensively dealt with in 15 years?
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On July 22, 2024, DBRS, Inc. (Morningstar DBRS) placed nine credit ratings Under Review with Negative Implications from four SuttonPark Structured Settlements transactions.
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The well publicized troubles of 777 Partners, which counts SuttonPark, one of the largest (if not the largest) servicers of structured settlement receivables, among its portfolio companies, raises an issue that should be addressed by current and former structured settlement annuity issuers
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Servicing of structured settlement payments is an arrangement that comes about when someone receiving a structured settlement enters into a transaction to sell some, but not all, of their structured settlement payment rights to a structured settlement factoring company.
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Structured settlement servicing means the entire structured settlement payment (not just the amount sold) goes to the factoring company, or a 3rd party servicer, which splits the payment and distributes the subsets to the selling annuitant or the investor as the case may be.
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According to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) legal Exhibit, the Access Funding Sales Training Manual suggests that Access Funding was formally targeting structured settlement annuitants of AIG, Pacific Life and “any other insurance company that needs (payment) servicing”
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An investor who has a purchased a number of factored structured settlement payment streams shared that recent turnover in payment servicers resulted in his acquired payments being delayed sometimes for several months. .When you buy a legitimate annuity, there is no payment servicing.
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Structured settlement payment servicing allows sellers to partially sell their payment streams, but poses risks such as reduced branding for issuers and increased danger for sellers. Recent schemes involving promissory notes are particularly concerning, as they can jeopardize creditors’ security, shifting risk from established companies to less reliable entities.