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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The 11th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has pulled the plug on Lujerio Cordero’s Serial Structured Settlement Factoring Case, following the majority opinion in the NY Court of Appeals in April 2023..11th Circuit notes that Cordero DID NOT sue the Structured Settlement Factoring Companies
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“This is a much needed step to ensure that our most vulnerable South Carolinians are no longer preyed upon by unscrupulous flim-flam artists,” South Carolina governor Henry McMaster said upon signing the upgraded structured settlement protection bill into law on May 16, 2023.
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Based on the New York Court of Appeals’ reformulation of the question, it concluded that such allegations do not state a cognizable cause of action for breach of the implied covenant. Plaintiffs failed to sue the unlicensed and under regulated structured settlement factoring companies.
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MetLIfe issues structured settlement annuities via Metropolitan Tower LIfe Insurance Company and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and structured judgment annuities thorugh Metropolitan Life insurance Company and a leader in both qualified and non qualified structured settlement annuities
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Amended Section 2111.18 of Ohio Revised Statute, shields information about an Ohio minor’s settlement from 3rd parties, such as structured settlement factoring companies, trawling court dockets looking to exploit a minor once they reach the age of majority,.for pennies on the dollar.
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Structured settlement annuities had a RECORD 4th quarter of 2022, as increasing awareness of rising interest rates looking good against a volatile stock market, plummeting crypto and hard work by industry members, catapulted industry production to close to its all time record achieved in 2019.
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The New York Court of Appeals, certified from the 11th Federal Circuit to address the focal point of plaintiff’s allegation, whether or not there is an implied covenant in anti-assignment provisions in the settlement agreement and qualified assignment. From Cordero v Tranamerica et al. .
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Cordero’s 30 year perioid certain has 360 monthly payments, full stop,.Period certain structured settlement annuities require no medical underwriting. Pricing of a period certain annuity is unaffected by medical information. There are no medical questions on a structured settlement annuity application.
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One tertiary marketer of factored structured settlement receivables clearly communicated what they were selling, stating “Since this is not an insurance transaction it does not require an insurance license or any other license. The reason for this because it is factoring which is a sale of receivables.
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Joe Gargan, the convicted felon and head of structured settlement broker The Pension Company,. who purloined millions of dollars from the USA taxpayers and a New York City area hospital, was granted compassionate release after being incarverated less than 2 years.