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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Central to dismissal against Cessna and Certain Underwriters at Lloyds of London, was that there was a qualified assignment to which Yerkes consented. But Anapol missed or punted on readily available sources of info on Executive Life that should have given them pause in my opinion.
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A digest of news and stories related to structured settlements and settlement planning in 2019
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The IRS refined definition of fixed and determinable in a series of PLRs. PLR 199943002 (variable annuities) and 201435006 (fixed annuity with index-linked adjustment rider). Fixed obligations must be set forth in the settlement agreement. Determinable payments can be based on an objective formula.
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Great Scot! An American structured settlement firm has discovered that Doctor Emmett Brown’s time machine has gone further than no DeLorean has gone before and beamed back that structured settlements are still going 17,802 years from 2019.
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Athene Defendants must create a new Capital Maintenance Agreement which replicates, and improves upon, the terms of the CMA whose purported cancellation is at issue. New CMA will be backed by Athene Holding Ltd. Plaintiffs’ expert opined the new CMA is backed by a better capitalized entity.
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The notice to payees sent in late May 2018 stated that the sale and the change of name will not affect the rights and benefits that you receive under any policy or contract from the above Transamerica Life Insurance companies.
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The Hartford sale of Talcott Resolution was completed | Annuity, Structured Settlement, Life Run Off
Talcott Resolution, based in Windsor CT, is the run off company for The Hartford’s legacy life and annuity business. including structured settlement annuities (which Hartford Life stopped writing in April 2012).
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The GE Capital Corporate guarantee,delivered with each structured settlement, expressly states that “the obligations of the guarantor will not be affected, impaired or discharged, in whole or in part, by any circumstances which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or release of a guarantor.
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Allstate had a peculiar way of issuing life with certain structured settlements as 2 contracts. This has led to confusion from time to time with contracts many years down the road. I’ve reblogged a 2015 post to help annuitants, colleagues and staff members. Allstate stopped writing structures in 2013.
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When you consider in 24 years, that some of the people who sold the “Structured Settlement Trust are retired or even deceased, it is fortunate that there was one seasoned veteran on a list serve who was spot on with the answer that it was Allstate’s version of the treasury funded structured settlement.