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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- How Sheron Jones Was Exploited — And Why D.C.’s Failure to Mandate IPA in SSPA Enabled It
- Attorney Fee Structured Settlement Factoring
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Category: Settlement Planner Business Practices
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If I were making a video podcast I’d pay someone to produce it professionally and I wouldn’t use a competitor’s name to promote an unrelated video. But then that’s just me.
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The Office of General Counsel of the New York State Insurance Department issued an opinion on December 12, 2007 which states that New York insurance brokers are not legally required to disclose to clients the commissions they earn on policies they place
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Fascinating that two scandals surrounding Presidential candidate John Edwards all involve structured settlement brokers or structured settlement consultants. It unfortunately appears that John Edwards gave Forge Consulting a testimonial on the basis of a financial contribution
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SFSP Survey Of How Credentialed Professionals Feel About Regulating Use of Professional Designations
The Society of Financial Service Professionals (SFSP) is the only professional organization in the industry that requires its members to be credentialed
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If can’t see yourself seeing this as a pro bono task, meaning you (or if you are a lawyer-your broker) wish to make money off the transaction, that’s your choice. But in the end it can only come from the structured settlement factoring transaction itself, and one dime taken reduces annutant’s recovery by ten cents.
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The Oregon Insurance Division today indicated that it concurs that a life insurance agent or broker (i.e. structured settlement broker) paying the expenses of a qualified settlement fund IS an illegal inducement.
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Structured settlement brokers and settlement planners and their clients should be mindful of a recent opinion of the New York State Insurance Department dated October 31, 2007. The question posed was "May an insurer or insurance agent lawfully offer flexible spending administration services at no cost in order to obtain a prospective client’s health insurance…
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Recent blogs and emails on the subject of "the structured settlement factoring vig scandal" have met with numerous contacts from members of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association and Society of Settlement Planners. There has been tremendous positive response to this project. As previously stated, this author shortly intends to publish a list of all…
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The intellectual capital of NSSTA members would be better spent on companies that do not serve the factoring industry or its “professional investors”. Why would an NSSTA member want to support the profits of DealFlow Media, a media company that is interested in promoting factoring?
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Are the structured settlement brokers and settlement planners that you are doing business with selling the names of plaintiffs (that you have referred them to set up structured settlements) to factoring (“cash now”) companies or for any other purpose? Have you asked? Has the firm posted a privacy policy?