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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- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
- Canonical: Non‑Qualified Assignment (NQA)
- ⭐ THE 18–25 GUIDE TO STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS
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Category: Settlement Professionals, Inc.
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How Is having a company, or a member associated with a company, whose acronym represents a scam label for factored structured settlement payment rights consistent with mission of the Society of the Settlement Planners?
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“The annuity cost is really the consideration being paid by the defendant to the third party assignee (annuity company) for assuming the future payment obligation” said Plaintiffs’ co-counsel Dick Risk in a 2005 Lorman CLE presentation, seemingly controverting what is said in the Appellate brief.
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Settlement planners who fail to demonstrate fundamental knowledge essential to the advice they are doling out to injury victims that are relying on them by publishing information that is so out of date are an embarrassment to the profession.
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To demonstrate Jack Meligan’s “selfless nature” Settlement Professionals, Inc.’s creative web designers have apparently and ingeniously omitted the letter “I” from two key words on the SPI web page discussion of how it is a pioneer in the industry**. Perhaps this sort of “brilliant strategic thinking” was conjured up while they were at altitude with their crampons and petons until developing an…
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by Structured Settlement Watchdog What a pity it is when industry veterans appear unable to articulate one of the fundamentals of their profession. Seen March 22, 2011 on the website of a former President of the Society of Settlement Planners on the subject of qualified assignments which says: " The original defendant will generally " assign…
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Nestled on a page featuring junk removal, ways to melt pounds and inches, a cure for stinky offices and “Camp Run a Mutt” doggy day care, is an ad soliciting would-be West Linn Oregon’s Settlement Professionals lawsuit settlement planning franchisees.
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Vitriolic settlement planner Jack Meligan of Settlement Professionals, Inc., renews a listing in the Federal Buyers’ Guide, a private sector government publication which targets Federal government employees for business.
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Structured Settlement Watchdog believes that a higher level of financial literacy within the structured settlement and settlement planning industry elevates the level of the profession in excoriating misinformation churned out by an industry participant.
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It’s embarrassing as a Registered Settlement Planner (“RSP”) and a member of the RSP board, that passes judgment on those seeking the RSP designation (a professional designation that I respect and worked hard to achieve) failed to accurately articulate a basic structured settlement concept
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Another settlement planning professional is cutting corners-this time with woefully deficient articulation of Qualified Settlement Funds (a/k/a 468B Trust), a major tool for settlement planners and their clients