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.
recent posts
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about
Category: Settlement Planning Profession
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Qualified Settlement Fund Planner, and for the life of me, with all of my renowned research skills, I can’t seem to find any accredited institution that awards such purported certification, designation, title, or an e-book or leaflet about it. Not a morsel. Not even a smidgen!. Maybe figment of imagination.
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Commissions are set by the annuity issuer and part of filings with the State of NY Dept. of Financial Services. Exceptions have been allowed with 9-11 victims families’ structured settlements with the Victims Compensation Fund and settlements with survivors of Marines killed in the Beirut barracks bombing in Lebanon in the 1983
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Structured settlement watchdog John Darer speaks about his mission for structured settlement consumers
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Membership in the Society of Financial Service Pr9fessionals has its benefits, one of which is an outstanding group professional errors and omissions insurance plan, which offers settlement planning professionals much lower deductibles than typically available through structured settlement agencies, with defense costs outside of the policy limits.
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Potential abuse of Qualified Settlement Funds observed by a leading settlement tax authority.
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As a settlement expert, long-term care and extended care naturally align with planning requirements in certain personal injury cases, extending to a wider scope that encompasses the lives of stakeholders and their families involved in these cases.
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The Chartered Special Needs Consultant™ provides financial professionals with the technical, collaborative, and quantitative skills necessary to help clients with special needs and designed to provide people with disabilities and other special needs with a more competent advisor
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The SSP annual meeting has become a real national study group, full of open information sharing, willingness to help others and a respectful discussion of intellectual ideas,
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Some structured settlement brokers and settlement planners throw around the term “fiduciary obligation” very loosely in their advertising. Isn’t there big difference between agents and brokers in terms of responsibility? Agents or buyer’s brokers have a duty to the factoring company or the investor. Don’t brokers who solicit and then are engaged by structured settlement…
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If the average person needs a degree from MIT or Caltech to decipher the thing, how useful is the concept map? Surely there are better ways to illustrate structured settlement concepts to convey the message to an audience.