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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Wesley Michael Woodyard, a former structured settlement broker from Dallas Texas, convicted in July 2017 for his role in defrauding ACE and other insurers for excess of $4 million, was released from prison on January 13, 2022, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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A nationwide class action lawsuit certified against Symetra Life Insurance and Symetra Assigned Benefits Service Company (“SABSCO”) alleges Symetra and its affiliate violated RICO, the WA Consumer Protection Act, civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and their contractual rights.
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It’s not unusual for a team paying to pay athletes deferred payments, but Bobby Bonilla was no Ken Griffey, Jr. or Manny Ramirez, who got bigger deferred payments, had greater accomplishments and bettter examples to promote deferred payments for any company, let alone, a company from Boston.
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Insurance groups that include current and former structured settlement annuity issuers represent more than 43% of the largest life insurance groups in the United States. While size matters, it is only one of the criteria one should use in selecting an insurance company to fund a structured settlement
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Why is the Clamaint releasing and discharging the Defendants and/or respondents in the settlement planner’s qualified assignment and release document from a QSF, when the money was deposited in the QSF under the “resolve or satisfy” clause in § 1.461-2(c)(2)?
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Weiss insurance ratings outperformed 3 to 1.” United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). What is a Weiss Rating?
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Charly Schell, Chief Strategist at Armis Advisers, CEO of Bison Advisors, and one of the original co-Founders of Forge Consulting passed away in a plane crash over the Rocky Mountains this weekend. Charly’s wife Kelli Taylor Schell also perished, General Manager of Cateechee in Hartwell Georgia.
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Michael K. Eidman, the attorney for a New York minor’s family submitted a letter to Judge Alston in support of Gargan’s request, which stated that Gargan had made full repayment of more than $1,032,750.00 that Gargan had embezzled from the NY minor’s medical malpractice settlement
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Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, named Pacific Life and Prudential among the 136 honorees representing 22 countries and 45 industries that have earned the coveted designation of World’s Most Ethical Companies® in 2022.
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Structured Setlements for Minors, Structured settlement annuities are excellent settlement planning tools to provide cash flow certainty where there is a need for certainty. Read more about Structured Settlements for Minors and Young Adults and how they were used effectively for a Kentucky minor