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 Settlement Broker Business Practices
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Any annuity broker being considered for selection by the DOJ should be required to verify at the time of selection that he or she meets the minimum qualifications set forth in 28 C.F.R. §50.24(a) and is otherwise competent to provide structured settlement brokerage services to the United States.
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Convicted felon Joseph E. Gargan, a disgrace to the structured settlement industry begin to serve his sentence for millions of dollars embezzled in crimes against the US government and a NY State Hospital. Gargan, 60 has been given inmate number 02366-509 by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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A Buffalo, NY settlement planner boldly declared in a sworn affidavit that they were a “certified settlement consultant.” This impressive-sounding but bogus title was not just mentioned once but flaunted twice in the same affidavit, which was presented to the Surrogate’s Court in Erie County.
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Today structured settlement factoring has devolved from justification as a source of liquidity to one of endless documented cases of systemic destruction of a stable source of income for annuitants, with the aid of shady lawyers and certain inattentive judges not up to the task.
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The article, by John Darer, discusses the complexities and potential legal issues surrounding factored structured settlement receivables as qualified funding assets. It raises concerns about misrepresentations of structured settlement payment rights, questioning the legitimacy of these agreements and their tax implications under Internal Revenue Code. The author urges readers to seek clarification and professional advice.
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While mllions of animals died in the January 2020 Australian wildfires,Chronovo insensitively exploited the tragedy with its “Smartoon” ad. The caption on Chronovo’s controversial image suggested that killing a rabbit daily for freshness is a better alternative to killing an elephant. A Mammoth embarrassment!
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New York Department of Insurance Office of General Counsel opined in 2007 that advertising contributions to Trial Lawyer Associations Was Also Unlawful. Yet some big donors that are structured settlement brokers often do, even in New York.
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Such a plan design encourages a young adult to sell their structured settlement for the figurative equivalent of a half eaten french fry composting on a landfill for 9 years, on the dollar. Such a plan design has no place in the structured settlement industry.
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Despite entering and honoring 5 prior written co-brokerage agreements , Patrick C. Farber circumvented a written agreement to split commissions and cheated a fellow California structured settlement broker/settlement planner out of over $89,000 in fees, according to a legal complaint
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The sentencing of Wesley Michael Woodyard, the former Dallas structured settlement broker turned fraudster, has been moved to July 7, 2017, the day that sliced bead was introduced.