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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Best’s Review has published “Standing the Test of Time” its annual report of insurance companies that have demonstrated their financial strength for half a century or more. Many current and past structured settlement annuity issuers make the list.
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I don’t think it is reasonable to dismiss the anecdotal evidence or personal observations of the settlement planner, structured settlement broker or a personal injury lawyer who has represented hundreds or thousands of plaintiffs
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Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (“MassMutual”), a former structured settlement annuity issuer, headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts, announced November 7, 2008 it has no intention of participating in the US Treasury’s TARP program.
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New York Life Insurance Company is a structured settlement annuity issuer, a member of the Fortune 100 and has been in business for over 163 years!
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In the Monarch Capital Corporation, the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court concluded that the structured settlement payees could continue to be paid without violating the automatic bankruptcy stay and without being subject to any claim on behalf of the bankruptcy estate of Monarch Capital Corporation.
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Genworth merged subsidiaries American Mayflower Life, First Colony Life and Federal Home Life into Genworth Life entities in January 1, 2007. All Genworth entities had ceased writing new structured settlement annuities by August 2006.
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Genworth, a spinoff from the old GE Financial Assurance group and at the time of publishing, through its underwriting companies, was a substantial player in the structured settlement annuity market in addition to periodic payment assumption reinsurance.
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When started doing structured settlement watchdog commentary, the industry had not seen it before, particularly the sometimes irreverent style that this blog has become known for. I want readers thinking about something they should be thinking about, in my opinion, as someone with a wealth of relevant experience and credentials.
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In my call today to CNA Structured Settlements today I confirmed that with one exception, the CNA customer service number remains unchanged. Please refer to the 4structures.com LLC list of structured settlement annuity customer service phone numbers.
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WHY, with such readily available information, decisions were made by judges approving infant settlement orders (with a non delegable duty to protect minors), plaintiff lawyers, parents, guardians ad litem, financial advisers and adult plaintiffs, to put all of New York plaintiff’s “eggs in one basket”?