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 Ethics Questions
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Are there any ethical considerations for a structured settlement co-broker placing a structured settlement for the defense using the information about the plaintiff’s structure to solicit them in the future for other insurance, advisory or investment products and services by them or third parties?
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Structured settlement watchdog John Darer speaks about his mission for structured settlement consumers
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The thought that qualifying for an incentive trip could possibly override what is best for a client would be both unethical and unconscionable and surely not sort of conduct that the structured settlement company, its compliance department or insurance regulators intend.
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Increasing sales of structured settlement receivables by settlement planners and plaintiff structured settlement advisers who profess to be fiduciaries, has brought a potential conflict of interest question to the fore.
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How is it that a judge in Broward County Florida, with a duty to make a determination that the sale was in a person’s best interest, approved an April 2014 sale of structured settlement payment rights leaving a man set up to fail?
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Cash now pushers routinely pay bribes to structured settlement annuitants as an inducement to sell their valuable future payment rights. Absence of anti-kickback legislation has resulted in kickback frequency of epic proportions, staggering in proportion to the anti-kickback limits of other legitimate financial business
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The committee concluded that a full-time judge may accept an invitation to speak at the annual conference of a not-for-profit association of legal and financial professionals involved in the structured settlement payment transfer process. The association is permitted to pay the judge’s reasonable travel and lodging expenses
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Would it be ethical for a structured settlement broker or structured settlement firm or owner of structured settlement firms to monetize contacts it has developed via referrals from personal injury lawyers or insurance companies, by accepting money from J.G. Wentworth, or any other company in the structured settlement sceondary market?
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Structured settlement secondary market participants continue to needlessly generate bad news related to their business practices. Consumers need to be informed about them.