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: Single Claimant QSF
A Single Claimant QSF is a Qualfied settlement Funding with a single claimant.
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The proposed regs would eliminate the requirement that damages be based on “tort or tort type rights” in order to qualify for the section 104(a)(2) tax exclusion, and Incorporate 1996 legislation requiring that personal injuries and sickness damages be “physical” in order to qualify for the 104(a)(2) tax exclusion
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Some settlement planners suggest the use of a QSF to skirt around the approved list of annuity markets of the liability insurer, pitching that it will give the plaintiff a “full market survey” yet end up limiting the choices for clients, because few markets willing to take an assignment from a QSF.
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A proponent of QSFs say that “by increasing the frequency of structuring, and the accurate matching of future payments to future needs, the use of QSFs will prevent premature dissipation (and the need to factor) in many cases”.
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The next time you get a piece of The Rock, it won’t include a single claimant qualified settlement fund. Prudential Insurance Company of America dealt a blow to promoters when it announced that it will no longer write structured settlement annuities stemming from single claimant qualified settlement funds (“QSF”)
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Patrick Hindert’s latest critique takes aim at a concept he calls 468B QSF settlement consulting. This idea apparently revolves around the typical use of a 468B QSF trust fund, which often seems to introduce unnecessary expenses to settlement transactions.
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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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A leading tax authority on structured settlements, Robert Wood recommends “avoiding the single claimant controversy by establishing QSFs with multiple claimants”