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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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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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.
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Structured Asset Funding, LLC, also known as 123LumpSum, is facing legal challenges for its questionable practices regarding residency in structured settlement transfer petitions. The case highlights potential forum shopping and misleading actions from representatives. Notably, communications reveal attempts to circumvent previous court determinations, raising concerns over adherence to legal standards.
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Factoring company lawyer Stephen Heretick was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in November 2015. Heretick has used his legislative privilege to prevent the case from proceeding to some resolution, leaving an astounding 30 outstanding motions in the Terrence Taylor case!
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A Rochester New York man has filed a a complaint against Structured Asset Funding, LLC d/b/a 123 Lump Sum alleging a fraudulent scheme that involved faking the Plaintiff’s relocation to Florida and the filing of two fraudulent structured settlement transfer petitions in Charlotte Circuit Court
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If the judge grants the interpleader, then Insurance Company of North America will make payments into the Court and not to Structured Asset Funding/ 123 LumpSum or its assignees (if SAF/123 assigned its rights to another investor or investors) Instead such payments will be paid into the Court to be held until the matter is…