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: Structured Settlement Advertising
Structured Settlement Advertising features asundry posts with an often humurous take on advertising claims made such as ” Years of Experience” stacking. Lighthearted roasts of primary and secondary market advertising for the greater good.
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The irony of the Novation ad is that the drink doesn’t appear to brandish an umbrella, an unwitting metaphor for what financial exposure someone gets who sells their structured settlement payments rights again and again, a loss of protection.
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Does Prohibition of Advertising Statutory Protection Under Insurance Law Apply to Receivables in NH?
Can a licensed insurance producer legally call stuctured settlement receivables a structured settlement annuity when it isn’t, or legally discuss statutory protections prohibited from being discussed under statute with a consumer while soliciting the consumer for the receivables (“annuity”}?
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The Structured Settlement Watchdog™ recommends that consumers avoid doing business with companies that cannot be straight forward about who they are.
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Consumers may not understand that they get one set of protections when buying an annuity or receiving an annuity funded structured settlement, different protections when buying a variable annuity and unclear protections when buying structured settlement payment rights
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The come on is "Get Structured Settlement Cash in a Flash". Download Google cash now structured settlement. According to worldnetweb at Princeton University the words "in a flash" mean "instantaneously: without any delay". (emphasis ours). The advertising claim is utter , the vulgar photo a "tip of the hat" to Stone Street Capital's "Teletubby-like" bovine spokescreature…
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The structured settlement watchdog chuckles at inconsistency on the Internet. It's like the game you play where you compare two similar pictures and you are charged with identifying the subtle differences. Here's another example… On the one hand 2011 "…… has been defending the cause of injury victims since 1988". "Her company (……) was one of only three approved structure firms in British Columbia". …
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This two part 2011 video podcast from LBN features 4structures.com, LLC President and stuctured settlement watchdog John Darer® and in the “opposing corner” Matt Bracy, Esq., then General Counsel of Settlement Capital Corporation and President of the National Association of Settlement Purchasers.
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Structurebroker.com was a brand jacking attempt by Delta Settlements in 2011 that was quickly retooled after news of it was made public.
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Perhaps your mailman has delivered a message from one of my industry colleagues which says "Don't let your clients'' structured settlements short-change them for the rest of their life", followed by the spectacular claim that, on average, the company in question "increases the return of a structured settlement in excess of 7.00%" and features what…