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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Colorado Springs Gazette reported June 11, 2020 that Colorado House Bill 1420 “would eliminate tax exemptions for “deposit fund annuities, structured settlements and lottery payouts. It’s misleading because the bill referred to premium taxes paid by insurance cos.
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Milestone Consulting email blast to trial lawyers states “Eliminate annuities from your client portfolios and settlement plans”. Like a number of things written and posted by Milestone Consulting and its CEO these days, the devil is in the details.
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The most prolific blog concerning structured settlements and settlement planning over 15 years. The style is spicy, informative, irreverent and effective with the occasional sprinkle of well placed snark.
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An Oregon Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) previously found that a Plaintiff’s structured settlement annuity was not an excluded resource for purposes of SSI. In a 2-21-2020 decision, the decision was REVERSED and this matter was REMANDED for recalculation of benefits. Here’s the story
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John Hancock Life is rolling out a new structured settlement exchange program that enables John Hancock annuitants to address their liquidity needs when they arise, while providing a measure of protection against secondary market predators
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Structured settlement industry production increased for the second year in a row. 2019 set a new record for structured settlements, the $6.4B a massive statement of relevance for the core personal injury settlement planning tool in an era of low interest rates and record setting stock market performance.
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What Milestone is pitching as an annuity is not an annuity, it is a Structured Settlement Receivable. So a big question is why would Milestone Consulting, led by a licensed insurance agent market something, or allow something to be marketed that is not an annuity, as an annuity?
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A digest of news and stories related to structured settlements and settlement planning in 2019
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Payees have sued the USA over ELNY shortfalls and failed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Langkamp case focuses on the settlement agreement. The USA’s commitment was inherent in the language of the agreement, the opinion by Judge Haldane Robert Mayer said.
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Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston is Lincoln Life Assurance Company of Boston since 2019. Customer Service Options for Annuitants whose Structured Settlement wasoriginally written with Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston