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.
recent posts
- 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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The CMA is the “very document that represents [defendant’s] forum-related activity” and is, therefore, undoubtedly related. This single, meaningful contact with Massachusetts is sufficient to meet the diminutive burden of showing relatedness
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Lead plaintiff John Griffiths and I got ahead of this, making the discovery in Fall 2014. The 2015 class action filed by Marcus & Auerbach led to what can only be seen as a positive result for over 4,000 annuitants. Nobody lost money, no money was in imminent danger and this was nipped in the…
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By all accounts, 2018 was the best production year for the structured settlement industry primary market for a decade. Here are the highlights.
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Structured Settlement Exchange, trademarked by Seventh Amendment Holdings in August 2018, was linked to an enuities.com site promising 50% higher payouts for structured settlements, despite disclaimers. The website appears inactive, raising questions about its claims. Additionally, the entity changed its name to CrowFly LLC in October 2018.
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Oral Arguments in the Appeal of Ezell v Lexington Insurance Company et al. Appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 18-2064 will be heard in Boston on March 5, 2019.
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Great Scot! An American structured settlement firm has discovered that Doctor Emmett Brown’s time machine has gone further than no DeLorean has gone before and beamed back that structured settlements are still going 17,802 years from 2019.
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AIG Structured Settlement Class Action Dismissed With Prejudice | Ezell v Lexington Insurance et al.
Plaintiffs failed to prove a Civil RICO conspiracy and failed to prove fraudulent misrepresentation claim an thus claims against all defendants were dismissed with prejudice.
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Seven Big Reasons that Settlement Depot is unreliable for structured settlement advice. One of the reasons people get into financial trouble is because they don’t budget and then have no way to measure and be accountable to themselves on spending..They don’t plan to fail but they fail to plan.
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The notice to payees sent in late May 2018 stated that the sale and the change of name will not affect the rights and benefits that you receive under any policy or contract from the above Transamerica Life Insurance companies.
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The Hartford sale of Talcott Resolution was completed | Annuity, Structured Settlement, Life Run Off
Talcott Resolution, based in Windsor CT, is the run off company for The Hartford’s legacy life and annuity business. including structured settlement annuities (which Hartford Life stopped writing in April 2012).