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 Industry News
Structured Settlement Industry News features blogs and new stories about goings on within the structured settlement industry
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FACT: Lead plaintiff Erica Biddings DID have a structured settlement broker of her own, Black Holcomb Smith & Associates. FACT: Lead plaintiff Erica Biddings DID choose her own structured settlement plan design and funding companies and AIG DID NOT object.
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Sentencing of Michael Woodyard, the self confessed crooked former Dallas structured settlement broker who ripped off a number of insurers, has been delayed due to his lawyer’s viral eye condition.
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It’s notable that the annuity agent on the Shaw case was Merrill Lynch Settlement Services, Inc. which appears to have utilized a cheap annuity from Executive Life, ignoring some unavoidable facts, apparently including Merrill Lynch internal guidelines.
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Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company became the primary underwriting company for MetLife structured settlement annuities. Metropolitan Tower Life was the successor-in-interest to Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company (“MIAC)”, the qualified assignment company used by MetLife structured settlements until December 1, 2004.
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The rated age action announced by AIG Structured Settlements is a responsible decision for a company that is in business to insure long term obligations. It reflects very positively on AIG’s quality control. In its notice AIG reaffirmed its commitment to the structured settlement industry.
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USPTO found IFS subsidiary’s arguments unpersuasive. Marks may be confusingly similar in sound, appearance and meaning where similar terms, or similar parts of terms, appear in the compared marks. The respective marks 4structures® and structures create the same overall commercial impression
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The word “structures” is common slang for structured settlements, structured settlement annuities, or structured annuities. Descriptive in nature, it’s used by structured settlement brokers, settlement planners, claims adjusters both domestically and overseas, plaintiff and defense lawyers and judges
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The structured settlement watchdog will give YOUR dog a bone, Bew the first person to correctly name the member of structured settlement primary market whose website states that it offers structured settlements from a company that hasn’t existed in 7 years. Contest ends May 8, 2017
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This will not impact new structured settlements, which will still be issued via Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, an A+ XV life insurance company in existence since the mid 19th Century. Existing structured settlements where Metropolitan Life was the annuity issuer are not affected.