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: Settlement Planner Malpractice Issues
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As things sit today, if you want a structured settlement out of such single claimant qualified settlement funds, your client will not get the full market opportunities that the proponents advertise. This fact may or may not be made transparent by the proponent.
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We all make mistakes and I’m no exception. But some of us are mature enough once we know we’ve made a mistake, to correct that mistake. Fair is fair and on more than one occasion when shown that I have been wrong on something I have corrected what I have written. Several months ago Jack…
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Is everything kosher with this structured settlement transaction? If not, why? Is A insulated from the actions of C or D in this “daisy chain” with respect to potential claims by E or F?
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How does the plaintiff recover from the devastating financial loss caused by poor settlement planning that forces the need to sell structured settlement payment rights within months of creation? Should an agent be permitted to keep the commission represented by the sold payment rights?
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The fact that structured settlement derivative buyers are contacting state insurance regulators, the subsequent contact of insurers by regulators, draws the conclusion that buyers of structured settlement derivatives (secondary market annuities) did not fully understand they were not buying annuities.
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Plaintiff lawyers and settlement consultants should be diligent about asking questions and probing for a plaintiff’s immediate cash needs prior to the creation of a structured settlement, while taking care to scratch below the surface with theri questions for a more accurate picture.
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Qualified settlement funds involving a single claimant were once heavily promoted by single claimant “QSF jockeys” as a method to get around insurance company approved lists and get a “full market survey”, The reality is anything but today. The status quo has changed.
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Which Jack Asses in the structured settlement industry have cut a "co-marketing" deal with a factoring company to divulge the timing and amounts of future periodic payments to the factoring company so the factoring company can approach them for "cash now" and so that the structured settlement broker or settlement planner can reap a fee…