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
- 🔥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: Society of Settlement Planners (SSP)
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New applicants to the Society of Settlement Planners must certify that they, individually will not participate or benefit in any way-whether directly or indirectly in finder's fees or payment of any form to a defendant, insurer, in-house agency of a defendant or insurer; defense attorney OR claimant's attorney, or any of their respective associations. Download Society…
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Do we expect too much from our trade associations? Patrick Hindert raises some interesting points in his discussion of healthcare reform in a generally well written article posted on the S2KM blog. The good however, is tainted by Hindert’s customary bashing of the settlement industry trade associations educational programs following his return from some other trade…
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While some talented settlement planners are members of the SSP, in an industry of over 1,000, the majority of the most talented settlement planners in the country ARE NOT members of the Society of Settlements Planners.
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The settlement profession has evolved over the years. It is important for plaintiff attorneys and their clients to have someone who is qualified, and that they feel comfortable with, to advise them on settlement planning and transitional financial planning issues.
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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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“Web 2.0” had a prominent role in nipping the false Rothstein narrative in the bud. This author called for an NSSTA “media SWAT team” several years ago. The important thing to take way is that while this “operation” was not a NSSTA operation, it worked.
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The new website of John Bat’s Plaintiff Settlement Solutions Incorporated (“PSSI”, pronounced “Pissy”) is NOT one of “life’s moments that takes our breath away”. As Will Smith might have paraphrased back in the day, time to start “gettin’ pissy with it”
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There are now fewer structured annuity options when using a single claimant qualified settlement fund than otherwise. How much errors and omissions coverage is out there covering the work of settlement planning practitioners who wholesale single claimant 468B qualified settlement funds?
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Structured Asset Funding, the purchaser of a portion of CT woman’s structured settlement payment rights (and the servicer of the rest) can’t give the CT woman a definitive time each month when she can expect to receive the structured settlement payments that she didn’t sell