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 Credentials
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A settlement planner who uses a professional credential in advertising but cannot articulate structured settlement fundamentals fundamentals diminishes the value of the credential by unacceptably lowering the standard. It’s up to other holders of the same credential to maintain a high bar and to call them out to “know your “sh^t!”
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Frankly if I’m spending money to re-do my kitchen I want someone who knows what they are doing. Do you want someone putting a straight edge razor to your throat to shave you without a license? The fees charged help fund the cost of administration.
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As part of its screening process A.M.Best asked for and independently validated 8 client references, people who had actually done structured settlement business with 4structures.com LLC. Furthermore, only professionals whose credentials have been verified by A.M. Best receive the BestMark.
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Does taking a professional designation course sponsored by a trade association count as attending the University of Notre Dame? Apparently a structured settlement broker holds himself out in this manner, in contravention to the facts about the designation posted on his trade association’s website.
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Is it necessary for a structured settlement consultant to be defense only, or plaintiff only, to be effective to meet your needs? Is it not more important that the structured settlement consultant be a credentialed expert in his or her field?
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The Chartered Special Needs Consultant™ provides financial professionals with the technical, collaborative, and quantitative skills necessary to help clients with special needs and designed to provide people with disabilities and other special needs with a more competent advisor
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Structured settlement consultants who continue to cite an industry certification program (that DID NOT require matriculation at the University of Notre Dame) as if they attended the University of Notre Dame,or University of Texas at Austin (post Pandemic) are misleading.
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According to certain folks’ websites and/or LinkedIn profiles they completed their CSSC at “Notre Dame University”, which is located in Zouk Mosbeh Lebanon. There’s also a campus in Shouf, which was the scene of a lovely Christmas recital on December 20, 2012. Details! Details! Details!
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The Structured Oil & Gas Lease Bonus Payment Option allows landowners to take advantage of IRS Revenue Ruling 68-606 by spreading out a lease bonus payment over a number of years, instead of getting whacked all at once in the first year.