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 Compensation
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Payment of (structured settlement) brokers’ commissions from out of the money Lexington paid for the annuities does not belie the facts that Lexington paid the amounts it quoted and that appellants received exactly those specific annuity payments the settlement agreements had promised,
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Material to the discussion is that the Edward Jones case turns on allegations of a reverse churn revenue operation from March 2013 to March 2018, in which advisors moved largely dormant assets into the fee-based side of the practice, when the commission model would have better served the clients.
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If structured settlement brokers or settlement planners “do not charge”, or work for free, where does the money come from to sponsor trial lawyer associations? Structured settlement brokers/planners do not really work for free. They earn a commission. Learn what you need to know here.
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As if it wasn’t enough to take on the responsibility of critiquing structured settlement websites for the improper use of the English language, for the first time I have an issue over the Settlement Channel’s use of Yiddish.
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Moving on to the rebating discussion, If the rebating laws are repealed, who gets the rebate when a structured settlement annuity is placed? The buyer is the qualified assignment company. Consider these points for discussion:
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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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The current system places too much emphasis in the wrong area. Any structured settlement broker or settlement planner has access to all 10 of the annuity issuers admitted in New York State. More emphasis should be placed on the quality of the plan presented along with the petition.
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Without naming names, I’ve now heard from more than one source that structured settlement consultants were offered the opportunity to do structured settlement work for a New York law firm on purportedly $30 million in annual structured annuity premium in exchange for "a point" (25%) of their commissions. One of my sources indicated that purportedly…
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Since rebating (kickback of commissions) is illegal in almost every state, there is no difference financially, to the plaintiff, whether 1, 2 or even 10 structured settlement brokers are involved.
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The backgrounds of settlement professionals with either plaintiff, defense or general consultancy is as varied as there are flavors of ice cream. Some have legal backgrounds, others have insurance backgrounds, claims adjusting backgrounds, banking backgrounds, securities backgrounds and life company backgrounds.