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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The following letter has been sent to NSSTA leadership by this author: "As you may be aware a number of annuity issuers/assignees are permitting factoring companies to "service" the annuity issuer/assignee's structured settlement obligations. The arrangement starts off with the first factoring deal, which is for a portion of the payments and the factoring company ends…
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Due to the funding delays, which caused major construction setbacks and penalties, and her father’s declining health, she regrets that the dream she sacrificed part of her financial future for—her father moving into the in-law suite—might never come true.
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Patrick Hindert's "friends" are coming to his defense and not surprisingly the source of support is from the factoring industry. Cash Now Pusher Stone Street Capital's Patricia Laborde states that "while he never actually uses the term, it seems that Hindert is suggesting that some in the primary market’s dislike for anything that legitimizes factoring…
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Structured Settlements 4Real has learned that former NSSTA Executive Director Randy Dyer will be featured as an engaging dinner speaker at the April 27-28 annual meeting of the Society of Settlement Planners. I understand that Randy will be giving his unique perspective about the future of structured settlements as part of two presentations in which…
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As you know I’m all for shining the light on bad business practices. Given the dynamic changes in an industry that is a subset of an even more dynamic financial services industry why not simply try to keep things current?
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Richard Halpern's email regarding the Patrick Hindert's "Structured Settlement Credo" 1-5 and "The Holy Grail" said: "John, You have already called me and interviewed me after Patrick Hindert published his "Structured Settlement Credo – 3" wherein he misquoted and mischaracterized an article that I recently had published in the "North Carolina Lawyers Weekly". In said blog…
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For someone fighting for “the little guy” it’s ironic that Risk chooses an image, a metaphor of ethanol production’s affect on prices that is choking everyday Americans, like tort victims and in causing price rises for consumer goods that directly or indirectly cause tort victims to factor their payments to companies funded by the same…
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Some plaintiff attorneys may have heard some of these “plaintiff loyal structured settlement planners” go so far as to suggest that there could be a legal malpractice exposure to the plaintiff attorney for denying their client the right to sell their structured settlement payments.
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When pressed for an answer any qualified settlement adviser will tell you that while a 468B qualified settlement fund is a useful settlement tool, it is neither appropriate nor practical to use an IRC 468B Qualified Settlement Fund for every case of every size, single claimant or otherwise.
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Structured Settlement Brokers and Settlement Planners will likely find the going tougher in the coming months as the backlash against "cash now pushers" and "factorability crack" distributors in the structured settlement industry continues to build steam and the self inflicted structured settlement and settlement planning industry weakness is fully exploited. I hate to tell anyone…