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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The commission is based on the premium amount of the annuity placed. Ad hoc reduction to annuitants, by the structured settlement broker or settlement planner, is not possible due to the anti-rebating statutes on the books in most states. Thus there is no possibility that the mere fact that contingent commissions exist will stimulate steering…
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One structured settlement broker thinks nothing of bragging about the size of its er… contributions to state and national trial lawyer associations and even highlights it in print and online media distributed to the lawyers or claimants that they are seeking business from. The New York State Insurance Department issued an opinion letter on November…
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Heard "on the street" that a veteran defense structured settlement broker with a large national firm recently claimed that it is "constructive receipt" for the plaintiff if the defense broker were to agree to a split of commissions with the plaintiff’s broker. Add to this that the defense broker had previously split with the plaintiff…
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I read a copy of a recently filed Complaint today in a case involving a contractual dispute over a settlement, which contained a blanket allegation that defense brokers on the approved list of a particular casualty company "agreed to reimburse a portion of premium earned" to that casualty company. It was alleged that in this…
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Before a structured settlement broker can be paid, he or she must hold a valid insurance license in compliance with the laws of the states governing the transaction.
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Use of Structured Settlement Experts by Plaintiff’s Counsel was my post dated February 15, 2006 in response to two letters by Steven A. Salzburg, Wallace and Beverly Woodbury University Professor of Law at George Washington University and Erwin Chermerinsky, Alston & Bird Professor of Law at Duke University that were presented by Richard Halpern, President…
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Eught bullet points that can help structured settlement consumers find the right structured settlement expert to work with
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Because Professor Saltzburg, footnoted in the opinion, demonstrates that he has no experience in this area either as a “structured settlement expert” or as a person who utilizes a “structured settlement expert”,it’s difficult to comprehend how his statement could be considered persuasive.
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Salzburg was the birthplace of Mozart and the setting for the musical and film The Sound of Music. A number of plaintiff structured settlement experts are using a certain legal ethic’s opinion of namesake Steven A. Saltzburg, Wallace and Beverly Woodbury University Professor of Law at George Washington University as a scare tactic and a…
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The question of whether insurance brokers are required to obtain the lowest cost insurance that meets the insured’s needs was addressed by the Missouri Supreme Court in the case of Emerson Electric Co. v. Marsh & McLennan Cos., 362 S.W.3d 7 (Mo. 2012).