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: Society of Settlement Planners (SSP)
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In 2013 Hindert considered that a pitfall occurs if settlement documents include anti-assignment clauses, which do not specifically reference and permit transfers pursuant to IRC 5891 and state structured settlement protection statutes”.The losing cause in Cordero had just that.
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Charly Schell, Chief Strategist at Armis Advisers, CEO of Bison Advisors, and one of the original co-Founders of Forge Consulting passed away in a plane crash over the Rocky Mountains this weekend. Charly’s wife Kelli Taylor Schell also perished, General Manager of Cateechee in Hartwell Georgia.
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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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Does The Timing of the Inducement Govern the Legality of The Rebate? Does the Payment of the Costs of a Qualified Settlement Fund then Put a Settlement Planner in a Conflict Situation on Product recommendations where he/she/it could run afoul of Anti-Rebating laws?
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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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The Society of Settlement Planners enters its second decade with a return to its roots as a professional fraternity. This welcome change has been underway for several years and in my opinion, it is good for the business. John Darer interviews Charly Schell, current President of SSP.
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Even if you did not write any ELNY structured settlement annuities, like me, or were not even in the structured settlement business at the time ELNY was operating, like me, perhaps you can volunteer a little pro bono time to field some calls and provide some compassion to people who need it.
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by John D. Darer CLU ChFC CSSC RSP Although I won't be attending I was impressed with the educational program put together for the Society of Settlement Planners Annual Meeting. It appears filled with topics that can immediately be put into practice, such as:. Liability Set Asides in 2011 Liens-How to Speed Up Resolution Qualified…
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by Structured Settlement Watchdog I have to say, branding yourself as the “shelter for battered structured settlements” is a bold and uniquely “creative” marketing move. I was pleased to obtain a copy of a September 13, 2011 approach letter that Jack Meligan, the loquacious President of the Society of Settlement Planners sent to a plaintiff…