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 History
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The Periodic Payment Settlement of 1982, a public law that allows defendants to assign their obligations (via a “qualified assignment”) to make future periodic payments to a third party without retaining a future obligation to the injured party has benefits to all sides. Read more.
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A Responsive Structured Settlement Commutation Rider helps maintain the benefits of structured settlement payments for survivors by assuring that only the amount necessary to pay the shortfall in the obligation to pay off liens (with an SNT), and/or tax liability (as the case may be)
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Non Qualified Assignments originated in the 20th Century, rather than the 21st, initially to help settle workers’ compensation claims initiated before August 5, 1997, which did not qualify for IRC 130 qualified assignments. SAFECO National and BARCO Assignments Ltd were the first two NQ assignees.
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For 30 years certain structured settlement brokers and settlement planners have raised the 30 year old Grillo legal malpractice case to drive structured settlement sales by trying to scare the crap out of plaintiff lawyers. But why have there been no other relevant legal malpractice cases in 30 years?
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Based on the New York Court of Appeals’ reformulation of the question, it concluded that such allegations do not state a cognizable cause of action for breach of the implied covenant. Plaintiffs failed to sue the unlicensed and under regulated structured settlement factoring companies.
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The total loss of James R. Gibson’s clients was $156,194,810.92 and many of them needed the money to support themselves and fund necessary medical treatment.
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Structured settlement receivables were often falsely promoted as annuities by those with no insurance, financial advisory or securities licenses, operating in a gray area. A decade on, legal cases reveal a growing body of victims bubbling to the surface like coffins in a flood.
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When you enter into a long term structured settlement, it can unsettling to later learn that the insurer has been sold or the product line discontinued. How insurers manage change speaks volumes. Examples of divestitures and acquisitions of structured settlement product lines, or actual insurers.
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Chronovo states that “nearly three times as many structures are purchased by individuals over the age of 65 (25%) than under 25(7%). Chronovo makes no sense at all. Individuals do not buy structures, nor do they buy structured settlement annuities…
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I think the truth is obvious. Res Ipsa Loquitur. More About the History of Structured Settlements