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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- 🔥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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Structured Settlement Industry at “Half Time” 2019. After returning to $6 billion in production in 2018, production through Q2 2019 exceeded $3B in premium for structured settlement annuities Top 3 were MetLife, Pacific Life and Berkshire Hathaway . Prudential and USAA Life Insurance Company round out the top 5 at half time.
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Ding Dong the Risk Lawsuit is Dead. Richard B. Risk, Jr, hitched up to a stud attorney, whose track record was promoted as if he was Seattle Slew, and failed like a wilted asparagus against AIG. See Ezell v Lexington Insurance Company et al.
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Under French law, any partners and children will receive a monthly benefit of up to 80 percent of his salary until what would have been his retirement age and then a share of his pension. C’est la vie!
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David Place is the guy “who wrote the book on lien resolution”, Synergy Settlement Services is suing him to enforce restrictive covenants. Place names Synergy and its officers, in counterclaims alleging a hostile work environment including salacious allegations concerning the CEO of Synergy Settlement Services.
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2018 was a good year for structured settlements. Preliminary reports suggested after the end of the 3rd Quarter that industry production might again exceed the symbolic $6 billion. Market volatility, interest rate improvements in the 2nd half of the year, new products and companies available to a larger group producers and greater sophistication of industry…
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Payment of (structured settlement) brokers’ commissions from out of the money Lexington paid for the annuities does not belie the facts that Lexington paid the amounts it quoted and that appellants received exactly those specific annuity payments the settlement agreements had promised,
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If you are receiving payments from an Athene structured settlement (previously Aviva or CGU) established before the end of 2008, you have likely received the check as part of a class action settlement.
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Qualified Settlement Fund Administrators, or QSF Administrators involved in class action lawsuits and mass torts may be interested in the internet domains 468B.com and QualifiedSettlementFund.com, which we might be convinced to sell at the right price.
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Vigilance is important in these portfolio sales as Athene’s purchase of Aviva USA amply demonstrates. In Allstate’s case its Advance Funding Exchange Notice is an important liquidity feature. Protections must remain so Allstate annuitants are not left to the structured settlement factoring vultures.
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The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has reversed a trial judge’s approval of a class action settlement with victims of an exploitative lead paint settlement scheme, finding the parties could not bargain away the Maryland Consumer Protection Division’s right to seek restitution from the company.