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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if you sell your structured settlement payment rights to JG Wentworth (or anyone else) the most you will receive is pennies, just pennies on the dollar. JG Wentworth can help…help itself to your hard earned settlement money. And they say that’s “even better”
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Structured settlement factoring class action lawsuit, Access Funding, LLC, et al. v. Chrystal Linton, et al., No. 5, September Term, 2022 ARBITRATION – EXISTENCE OF AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE – FRAUD – TRANSFER OF STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT PAYMENT RIGHTS
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Strategic Capital, a Canadian structured settlement factoring company, has become a Sustaining Partner of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association by contributing $27,000 to $36,000. Critics question the implications of “working alongside” lawyers in managing settlements and highlight the lack of regulation in this industry, suggesting that clients should explore options thoroughly before proceeding.
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Amended Section 2111.18 of Ohio Revised Statute, shields information about an Ohio minor’s settlement from 3rd parties, such as structured settlement factoring companies, trawling court dockets looking to exploit a minor once they reach the age of majority,.for pennies on the dollar.
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Sellers explain why they regret those decisions years later. One said selling his stuctured settlement was “the biggest regret of his life”. tt’s unwise to proceed without independent professional advice, even if its not mandatory in your state
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People with structured settlements don’t actually own the annuities funding them; these annuities are typically owned by qualified assignment companies. However, individuals with structured settlements do have the option to sell their structured settlement payment rights if a judge approves..
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New Jersey P.L. 2022, CHAPTER 98, effective August 12, 2022, AN ACT concerning the “New Jersey Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act” and amending P.L.1991, c.208 has SERIOUS implications for NJ investors in structured settlement payment rights.
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The New York Court of Appeals, certified from the 11th Federal Circuit to address the focal point of plaintiff’s allegation, whether or not there is an implied covenant in anti-assignment provisions in the settlement agreement and qualified assignment. From Cordero v Tranamerica et al. .
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In Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Co. v. Roosevelt Land Partners Corp., the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a lower judge erred in allowing Donald Hill’s attempted transfer of his structured settlement payments because it would violate the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. “
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Why would a JG Wentworth ad include the name of one of its competitors on March 2, 2023? Was there a merger or acquistion? Apparently no. JG Wentworth was apparently doing the “Ooey-Gooey”