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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As John Darer reviews, inaccurate information about structured settlements is useless to consumers. Silver Dollar Financial’s poorly constructed explanation regarding inheritance of structured settlements demonstrates a lack of fundamental understanding and is, quite frankly, nonsensical.
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Are investments in structured settlement receivables suitable for tort victims? In rare circumstances and after careful deliberation. Buying fixed annuities doesn’t require a court order to be concluded or have such an exposure to transactional risk as do structured settlement receivables.
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In 2013 Hindert considered that a pitfall occurs if settlement documents include anti-assignment clauses, which do not specifically reference and permit transfers pursuant to IRC 5891 and state structured settlement protection statutes”.The losing cause in Cordero had just that.
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North Carolina HB 845 is an act to update the North Carolina Structured Settlement Protection Act to align with the most recent version of the Model State Structured Settlement Protection Act approved by the National Counsel of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL).The update is way more toothy!
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The 11th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has pulled the plug on Lujerio Cordero’s Serial Structured Settlement Factoring Case, following the majority opinion in the NY Court of Appeals in April 2023..11th Circuit notes that Cordero DID NOT sue the Structured Settlement Factoring Companies
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Ironically, when you sell structured settlement payments for the best you’re gonna get…”pennies on the dollar”, you’re closer to the past tense of the ” F” word and Butthead Nirvana, than a score of a big cash windfall that some structured settlement factoring companies promise,
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Structured Asset Funding/123 Lump Sum scored a big point in the first part of a bifurcated Taylor trial in Portsmouth Virginia earlier this week, as Judge Charles Maxfield ruled that Terrence Taylor was a Virginia resident. Taylor had contended he was a resident of West Virginia.
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The article discusses the risks of selling structured settlements, highlighting deceptive marketing tactics that misrepresent offers as lucrative. It references inflated claims by a factoring company likening the sale to a “jackpot,” while emphasizing that such sales result in significant losses. Selling structured settlements should be approached cautiously, as it’s not a game or lottery.
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8 years after Terrence Taylor filed a lawsuit that made national headlines, after numerous motions, copious amounts of legislative privilege, recusals of a judicial circuit. an existential occurrence ( the Colonial pipeline hack) led to 5 months more delay, the rubber is finally hittng the road and Taylor will have at least 2 days in…
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Cordero’s 30 year perioid certain has 360 monthly payments, full stop,.Period certain structured settlement annuities require no medical underwriting. Pricing of a period certain annuity is unaffected by medical information. There are no medical questions on a structured settlement annuity application.