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 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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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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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
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The RSP Board seems to be running a bit of a “one-company circus” with 62.5% of its members from the same team. Diversity isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the secret sauce for credibility and growth! Right now, it feels less like a board and more like a company picnic.
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In my opinion it would be particularly useful for some members of an industry whose marketing teams have regaled the legal world with such ditties as: Plaintiff versus Plantiff, Structured versus Structered, Complementary versus Complimentary and the pigeonholing of “Quailed” versus qualified
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A structured sale annuity IS NOT tax exempt. Provided the terms of IRC 453 apply, a structured installment sale should help the seller defer capital gains taxes. Like a regular installment sale, when each installment is made, a portion of it represents return of basis in the property, part represents capital gain and part represents ordinary…