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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- 🔥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 Industry News
Structured Settlement Industry News features blogs and new stories about goings on within the structured settlement industry
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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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Despite entering and honoring 5 prior written co-brokerage agreements , Patrick C. Farber circumvented a written agreement to split commissions and cheated a fellow California structured settlement broker/settlement planner out of over $89,000 in fees, according to a legal complaint
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by John Darer® CLU ChFC MSSC RSP CLTC Fixed annuity sales declined in the second quarter of 2017. Sales were down 7 percent to $29.2 billion. All fixed product lines sales, except structured settlements, experienced declines. In the first half of 2017, fixed sales fell 11 percent to $56.7 billion. 401(k) specialist attributes the drop…
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CT lawyers voted 4structures.com LLC (John Darer) Top 2 in the CT Law Tribune’s Best of CT Survey for Structured Settlements. We’ve placed in all but one year since 2006. The 2017 vote is especially gratifying because we placed without canvassing lawyers to vote for us in emails or on social media.
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Mike Woodyard from Dallas, was convicted by Texas Judge Sidney Fitzwater for his role in defrauding ACE European and other insurers for excess of $4 million bteween 2002-2013. The agency with whom Woodyard was affiliated, previously settled with the insurers.
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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.
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Insurance regulation is the province of the states, the majority if which have long standing anti-rebating laws. Dick Risk’s opinion piece on structured settlement reform implies that the rebate issue is an insurmountable hurdle. It would involve each state amending its longstanding insurance laws
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The off the cob “Suit Puts Structured Settlement Market Under The Spotlight” is not the Warren “Herschy bar” it pretends to be. Too many apples and oranges.
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Warren Buffet underscored Berkshire Hathaway support for structured settlements at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. When asked about Berkshire Hathaway’s view on structured settlements, Buffett said that “more people want to put their structured settlements with Berkshire Hathaway than anyone else”.
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If you receive structured settlement payments from Aviva, delays may have occurred due to Athene’s acquisition of Aviva’s US operations and the decision to use a Third Party Administrator, Concentrix. Athene is rolling out new structured settlement annuities starting Q3 2025, leading to operational changes affecting payment timing.