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 News
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CBC Settlement Funding, of Conshohocken PA is a member of National Association of Settlement Purchasers.Does CBC’s use of branded logos of structured settlement annuity cos.to solicit people to sell structured settlement payments for pennies on the dollar jive with NASP’s standards of business conduct?
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American National, a big name in annuities, has just stepped into the structured settlement annuity market, and the “sneaky skunks” of the secondary market are already swooping in on annuitants like vultures eyeing a wildebeest taken down by a cackling clan of hyenas.
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The SuttonPark Story Should Make a Business School Case Study SuttonPark is the worst handled disaster in structured settlement factoring history in my opinion. MBA students should study the business of SuttonPark, the decision making and how it all went wrong. What could SuttonPark have done better? Plenty.
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If you haven’t received notice that payments are being serviced by someone other than SuttonPark (e.g. DRB Capital LLC, Vervent), contact the assignee named on your structured settlement transfer docs. Be sure they’re aware of the April deadline. Get written confirmation of the change of servicer.
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Morningstar DBRS Maintains Under Review with Negative Implications designation on SuttonPark transactions on January 16, 2025. The report sheds light on what has been going on behind the scenes in terms of lock box and banking relationships.
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In November 2023, I gave JG Wentworth a some playful ribbing about the inauthenticity of the horned hats that sat on the bonnets of their iconic Viking chorus.and JG Wentworth has reponded Meet the Vikings – JG Wentworth. Well done JG Wentworth! Someone needs to clue in Wild Fox Tees though. Someone at JG needs to…
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Florida investor, 75, has not received a payment from SuttonPark in 2 months. Payments she depends on.. No discussion about payment servicing and what it is, why it is necessary, potential risks etc. Payment servicing must be thoroughly explained up front for both sellers and investors.
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District Settlement Finance flubbed badly by displaying the Courts of “Waterbury County CT in its silly mailer. Sorry District Settlement Finance, no such county in CT. Oakville, where Brown lives, is in Litchfield County, CT. Waterbury, the Judicial District of the Court’s location is in New Haven County.
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A month before chaos ensued for those compelled to deal with SuttonPark by partial sales of their structured settlement payments, ING sued SuttonPark, seeking to recover $28M in loan proceeds that ING advanced to Sierra 2016, LLC, based on alleged fraud perpetrated by the defendants.
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Mavis Davis, a Texas resident whose stuctured settlement was funded with an annuity from Prudential Insurance Company of America and serviced by SuttonPark. Payments are severely late. Prudential mails checks to SuttonPark but payment isn’t getting to Mavis. Certainly a lump of coal for Xmas