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 Payment Rights
Structured settlement payment rights refer to the right to receive payments outlined in a structured settlement agreement. These rights are also commonly called structured settlement receivables.
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Genex Capital Corporation recently issued “recall notices” to investors in pre-2015 structured settlement payment rights where their structured settlement investments are subject to payment servicing. The notice headline is “RECALL FIRST NOTICE—ACTION REQUIRED”
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A structured settlement is not an annuity, A structured settlement obligation may be funded with an annuity but the structured settlement itself is not an annuity. This is a fundamental and important distinction for anyone seeking to invest in structured settlement payment rights.
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The NAIC’s Task Force, in November 2021, urged states to reevaluate their laws regarding receivership and guaranty funds, identifying critical issues affecting structured settlement investors. The 2017 revisions to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Model Act exclude protections for structured settlement investors, emphasizing the need for heightened diligence in acquiring structured settlement payment…
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Key bullet points to set you straight about some of the questionable claims made by individuals and companies to investors in structured settlement payment rights. Don’t be fooled by glib salespeople who don’t know their product.
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Shawn Plummer’s explanation of “secondary market annuities” is a floater, totally useless. Any legitimate annuity expert would know that factored structured settlement payments are not an annuity or an insurance product.
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Investors in structured settlement receivables may not receive a1099 from the structured settlement annuity issuer, even though there has been a direct assignment of structured settlement payment rights. This does not mean that no taxes are due.
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Ross Pearlstone of DCF Exchange acerbic response to CrowFly was that DCF “provides real people with the access to purchase rights to seller’s future payments”, adding in full dead pan crow “but we have (on occasion) worked with farm animals & aliens and lately business has been rather brisk”.
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Structured settlement annuities are not owned by individuals. Check any settlement agreement. Individuals can’t sell them. So you can’t buy structured settlement annuities from individuals. This is Structured Settlements 101 So why would Buffalo’s CrowFly advertise that you can when you can’t?
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More investors have filed suit against Genex Capital and its CEO in AZ Superior Court in Maricopa County, captioned Barry Beitman, Bruce Sweeney, Weill Guo, Quingling Zhang and Sandi Haskell v Genex Capital Corporation, Roger Proctor, Happy State Bank & Trust and Security Title Agency Inc.CV 2022-002266. A Certificate of Compulsory Arbitration was docketed on…
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Patriot Settlement Resources appears to be soliciting investors in structured settlement payment rights and mispresenting them as annuities.