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
- Corinthian Museum of Content Barfing — News Flash
- SettlementDecisions Episode 5: What SettlementDecisions Really Is — A Lead Funnel, Not an Information Source
- Structured Settlement Annuity Guarantees Help Financial Peace of Mind
- How Sheron Jones Was Exploited — And Why D.C.’s Failure to Mandate IPA in SSPA Enabled It
- Attorney Fee Structured Settlement Factoring
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Category: Structured Settlement Profession
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Potential abuse of Qualified Settlement Funds observed by a leading settlement tax authority.
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Where Pat Hindert Sees Bleak I see Strands of Optimism. The fact is that structured settlement industry premium is up 7% year over year, It’s worth noting that production increased despite the withdrawal of two companies from the market in February 2013.
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Is it necessary for a structured settlement consultant to be defense only, or plaintiff only, to be effective to meet your needs? Is it not more important that the structured settlement consultant be a credentialed expert in his or her field?
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Structured settlement consultants who continue to cite an industry certification program (that DID NOT require matriculation at the University of Notre Dame) as if they attended the University of Notre Dame,or University of Texas at Austin (post Pandemic) are misleading.
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The Society of Settlement Planners enters its second decade with a return to its roots as a professional fraternity. This welcome change has been underway for several years and in my opinion, it is good for the business. John Darer interviews Charly Schell, current President of SSP.
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Some structured settlement brokers and settlement planners throw around the term “fiduciary obligation” very loosely in their advertising. Isn’t there big difference between agents and brokers in terms of responsibility? Agents or buyer’s brokers have a duty to the factoring company or the investor. Don’t brokers who solicit and then are engaged by structured settlement…
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Is it EVER acceptable for your structured settlement broker or settlement planner to sell, or offer to sell lists of names, contact information, specific payment information, of your client(s) or annuitant(s) to a factoring company?
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If a structured settlement planner is representing a plaintiff or plaintiff lawyer where the defendant’s insurer has an approved list of three structured annuity issuers should the settlement planner restrict their search to those three companies for fear of raising the client’s expectations?
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Those who choose to be centrists CAN credibly deliver a coherent benefit message as the “the bridge builders” of the structured settlement profession . Isn’t the very concept of the settlement of litigation the result of a compromise where adverse parties find common ground?