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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- Daily Rates Are Often an Important Cost Driver of Structured Settlements
- 🔥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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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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Pacific Life & Annuity Services, Inc., is the qualified assignment company for all Pacific Life branded structured settlements and include underwriting companies Pacific Life Insurance Company in all states but New York and Pacific LIfe & Annuity company for all claims with touch points to New York.
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Pacific Life offers competitively priced fixed structured settlement annuities, index linked structured settlement annuities (ILAPA) and has a variable structured settlement annuity in development. Pacific Life & Annuity Company also issues structured judgment annuities in New York cases.
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Today the A++(Superior) A.M. Best rated USAA Life insurance Company is a highly respected issuer of structured settlement annuities for a wide spectrum of claimants, particularly competive for long duration cash flows .
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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
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The SEC announced fraud charges against Synergy Settlement Services, Inc., Jason D. Lazarus, Esq., Orlando, FL, and Anthony F. Prieto, Jr. of Tampa, FL, for allegedly defrauding individuals with disabilities into believing that they were placing their funds in a pooled trust managed by a non-profit
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If you can have “qauliflower” as a pizza crust why not as a crust for your firm-wide qualified settlement fund? A new milestone was set at Injury Board 2021 when Brassica Sedes Fiscus, the low carb “Qaulified Settlement Fund” was introduced.to a rapturous coterie of Injury Board lawyers.