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: Structured Asset Funding/123 Lump Sum
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Structured Asset Funding/123 Lump Sum scored a big point in the first part of a bifurcated Taylor trial in Portsmouth Virginia earlier this week, as Judge Charles Maxfield ruled that Terrence Taylor was a Virginia resident. Taylor had contended he was a resident of West Virginia.
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8 years after Terrence Taylor filed a lawsuit that made national headlines, after numerous motions, copious amounts of legislative privilege, recusals of a judicial circuit. an existential occurrence ( the Colonial pipeline hack) led to 5 months more delay, the rubber is finally hittng the road and Taylor will have at least 2 days in…
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Structured Settlement Watchdog critiques 123 Lump Sum, a structured settlement factoring company, for incorrectly stating that a defendant in a civil suit is guilty rather than liable. The company, which seeks to buy structured settlement payment rights for less, is criticized for misleading consumers about the nature of structured settlements.
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In a state where there is a structured settlement protection act like Virginia, nobody should be able to do 10 or 11 pennies on the dollar structured settlement factoring transactions in 2 years and then have to wait more than 3 times that time frame to have their case heard
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The annuity that funds the structured settlment is not owned by the payee, it is owned by the qualified assignment company. In a structured settlement transfer, the annuity does not get transferred or purchased. What is bought and sold is the structured settlement payment rights
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A disabled black man’s legal case, a 2015 lead story in the Washington Post, has languished for 7 years, delayed by parties who profited from buying his structured settlement payment rights for pennies, grossly disproportionate to the 24 months it took them to erode the victim’s financial security.
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Can a black man with a structured settlement get a fair shake in Virginia Courts? On this showing it doesn’t seem so. While the issues here transcend race, it’s notable that so far it has been one black man against a bunch of white folk with law degrees and white salespeople.
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Monroe County New York Judge Ann Marie Taddeo dealt another procedural blow to Structured Asset Funding in their effort to wriggle out of the structured settlement factoring fraud case against them brought by Rochester resident Philip Lape.
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Judge Anne Marie Taddeo ruled July 27, 2021 that the Defendants’ motion for summary judgment in a NY to FL structured settlement factoring forum shopping case is premature. The Court cannot properly access (sic) the Plaintiff’s or Defendant’s role in the alleged ” fraud”.
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In What You Need To Know Before Selling Structured Settlement Payments in 2021, one of the cardinal rules for consumers is ” If a Representative of a Structured Settlement Buyer or their Lawyer Tells You to Lie About Your Residence, Run Now!” . Forum shopping is a sucker’s play for annuitants.