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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In the “Spurious Case of Gwendolyn Glutton”, a Florida operative in the structured settlement factoring interstitial, solicited a California structured settlement annuitant in a manner than needs to be exposed for the educational purposes, the good of humanity and connoisseurs of word salads everywhere.
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The Federal Communications Commission has adopted new rules to further protect consumers from scam communications by directly addressing some of the biggest vulnerabilities in America’s robotext defenses and closing the “lead generator” robocall/robotexts loophole. Relief for annuitants?
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Stone Street Capital, a JG Wentworth subsidiary, misleadingly promotes selling structured settlements for “pennies on the dollar” as beneficial. The content warns against this deception, emphasizing that selling structured settlement payments will indeed result in significantly reduced financial returns, urging readers to remain skeptical of such sales pitches.
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The content critiques J.G. Wentworth’s portrayal in Money Maker Magazine, arguing that it exaggerates the company’s role in structured settlements. It highlights discrepancies in their claims, such as not providing financial advice, and notes their history of bankruptcies. Overall, it argues that the magazine’s representation fails to reflect reality.
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Did JG Wentworth’s ad team run out of Viking hats and resort to the noggin’ toppers of the Modern Stone Age “Order of the Water Buffalo”? When reached for comment, Fred and Barney exclaimed in unison “How Hanna and Barberassing!”
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The Know Your Client process recently came up in a filing in a Castro County Texas dispute that concerns the Reassignment of Factored Structured Settlement Receivables.
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It is well settled that factored structured settlement payment rights are not annuities. Factored Structured Settlement Receivables are an unregulated non-insurance product sold by legitimate companies as “”Structured Settlement Annuities” and “Secondary Market Annuities”. It’s just reckless at this point.
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HIndert was honored in 2012 as “a distinguished individual who has supported and defended the right to free alienability of property rights”, only months after Cordero sold payments. “NASP considers this right to be its own cornerstone and the foundation of the structured settlement factoring business”.
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It was only decades ago, during the “Paleolithic Computer Era”, there was a simple but blunt concept called “Garbage In Garbage Out”, or in a playfully respectful acronym, a nod to Madame Vice-President (and Muttley from The Wacky Races), “GIGO”
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Work with a credentialed and experienced settlement planner to explore your options before signing any settlement agreement and release.