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 Factoring Auction Sites
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The IRS Structured Settlement Factoring Audit Technique Guide was revised in 2009 and 2020, but has disappered in 2025 without a trace. The guide contained useful information for someone who wants to know the basis for Structured Settlement Protection Acts and IRC 5891, a section often cited by settlement professionals.
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The risk for people who are already invested in other people’s structured settlement payment rights is that the exclusion is applied retroactively and they have no protection in the event of insolvency of the underlying annuity issuer or bankruptcy of the qualified assignment company.
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Summoning up the words of the late Billy Preston, one might ask the questions of Buffalo’s CrowFly: “Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?” to address its contradictions.
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Investors in structured settlement receivables face unfavorable news. As of July 1, 2020, the Maryland Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Corp clarified there is no protection in cases of annuity issuer insolvency and liquidation.
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Crowfly, LLC of Buffalo New York claims to be “The first online marketplace for selling & buying structured settlement payments”. It apparently isn’t. CrowFly’s questionable claim just might be getting Genex Capital’s CEO Roger Proctor’s knickers in a twist. .
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It’s undeniable that selling your structured settlement to Lawson Capital Funding, or similar company, is a sure way to lose mone. Why give up guaranteed income to pay for a vacation you can’t afford? Save income from your job, if employed, or your structured settlement job”, like everyone else?
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Todd Dyer, the Ponzi Schemer and money launderer that founded Income Stream Exchange in 2015 was sentenced on March 8th to 15 years in jail for crimes that he was indicted for in 2015. The now convicted Dyer is not the only felon who has “graced” the structured settlement secondary market.
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Allstate had a peculiar way of issuing life with certain structured settlements as 2 contracts. This has led to confusion from time to time with contracts many years down the road. I’ve reblogged a 2015 post to help annuitants, colleagues and staff members. Allstate stopped writing structures in 2013.
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If convicted Ponzi schemer and Income Stream Exchange Founder Todd Dyer was a defendant in only one fraud case pending before the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, it would have been enough. He is a defendant in three!
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The application seeks to patent “the methods and systems are provided that provide an efficient, transparent and automated auction and trading exchange for structured settlements and other structured cash flows.