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.
recent posts
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- 🔥Founder and Former CEO of 777 Partners, Joshua Wander, Pleads Guilty⚖️ to $500 Million Fraud Scheme — DOJ Confirms Double‑Pledging, Misappropriation of Structured‑Settlement Funds, and Falsified Bank Statements
- The Steering Problem Needs a Wake‑Up Call
- Companies Still Using the Incorrect Term “Secondary Market Annuity”
- Canonical: Non‑Qualified Assignment (NQA)
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Category: Structured Settlement History
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An effort to assure that history isn’t rewritten and structured settlements are not unfairly mischaracterized by ELNY victims or the media and, an effort to educate others and to help prevent the same mistakes by financial planners, lawyers, judges, structured settlement brokers, annuitants or guardians, in whatever combination or capacity in the future we present…
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If you were running a business and a customer, who represented 20% of last year’s sales, decided to no longer do business with you, do you think there would be any financial impact on the company? How could settlement advisers place people into ELNY following many concerning news reports?
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No AIG strctured settlement annuity issuer received a bailout. Neither American General Life Insurance Company, American International Life Assurance Company of NY(now United States Life Insurance Company in the City of NY) received a bailout. Characterizing it otherwise is total BS.
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ING/ Security Life of Denver briefly wrote structured settlements from November 1997 through September 1, 2000.
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The former broker stated to me that it in fact it was the plaintiff lawyer who insisted on Executive Life. The broker’s client refused to do business with Executive Life, but the plaintiff attorney persisted and accused the insurance company of not giving his client “full market access”.
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Between 1983-1989 1,500* injury victims shunned more established companies and diversification, to to put all their eggs in one basket, 100% of their structured settlement annuities with a single, small, junk bond rich company, Executive Life Ins.Co of NY/ ELNY, which offered the highest rates.
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I want to do something that the mainstream press has not done. I am seeking out ELNY Victims who have full documentation about their structured settlements and the circumstances that led to the placement of 100% of their personal injury or wriongful death settelment funds in an ELNY annuity.
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While I am happy to speak with any Executive Life of New York annuitant as a compassionate voice from the structured settlement industry and to share my historical research through this medium, I am not a lawyer and cannot provide legal advice to Executive Life of New York annuitants. ELNY annuitants should consult with a…
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What a macabre sense of irony! “Claimants, policyholders,.interested parties in the affairs of Executive Life Insurance Co of NY “(ELNY”), or their counsel have been invited “to.show cause” before Supreme Court Nassau County to discuss the “death” of ELNY on “The Ides of March”?
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When the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released its Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures ; the estimated tax revenue loss for structured settlements was not be as big as previously thought, The JCT estimate of structured settlement tax revenue loss was “de minimis”