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
- Daily Rates Are Often an Important Cost Driver of Structured Settlements
- 🔥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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Watch contemporaneous testimony from May 1991, of California’s John Garamendi and Salvatore Curiale, of the New York Insurance Department* testified before a House Ways and Means Sub-Committee on the collapse of Executive Life Insurance Company and ELNY
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Executive Life of New York news junkies may be interested in two curmudgeonly blog entries about ELNY by Peter Bickford from December 2007. His contemporaneous commentary provides an interesting perspective as to where the fault lies with ELNY.
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John Darer and Mark Wahlstrom discuss Executive Life of New York, what’s going on, how it could impact ELNY structured settlement annuitants, industry changes in the last 20 years, in part due to the Executive Life and ELNY impairments and how likely this will happen in the future.
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Lifetime annuities and longevity insurance carry unique investment challenges for life insurers because they may guarantee payments beyond the term of standard investments.
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The evidence shows that life insurers issuing structured annuities have had no failures during the same time period. Life insurers on the whole have stood the test of time. Banks crushed insurers with 100 Bank failures to 0 life insurer issuing structured settlement annuity failures..
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"Today I lost a friend. Today I lost a mentor, a strategical thinker, a confidant and someone who shared a common philosophy for truly putting the injured party and their needs first and rest will work itself out later. I am fortunate that my life and his intersected, if only for a brief four years,…
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Richard G. Halpern, a passionate and pioneering advocate for tort victims in the United States has passed away from cancer at age 64. Although I’ve known Rich Halpern for almost 20 years, I’ve only really got to know him well over the last three
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On August 19, 2009 Structured Settlements 4Real hit the 2,000 post mark. It took a little less than 26 months for Structured Settlements 4Real to hit the 1,000 post milestone. It has taken only 18 more months for Structured Settlements 4Real to hit the 2,000 post milestone. When you've written the most, chances are that…