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 Profession
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Why does this easily fixable problem still fester like an unattended boil?
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Notably missing below is a requirement of adherence to the published NSSTA Code of Ethics. The NSSTA has a published Code of Ethics which it posts on its website.
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Members of the industry, NSSTA and the Univ. of Notre Dame have expressed concerns regarding the way CSSC designations are listed on bios of structured settlement brokers. Notre Dame does not have a CSSC program. The CSSC designation is offered by NSSTA in cooperation with the Notre Dame’s Executive Education Department.
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I’m aware of a structured settlement firm whose members routinely use a small excerpt of a published document to compete with another firm. The complete published document puts the small excerpt into context but the offensive structured settlement firm in question chooses to omit those material facts
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A New York attorney is online claiming to be a “licensed structured settlement broker consultant,” which is about as real as unicorn insurance. The structured settlement profession would benefit greatly if some of its members stopped making up imaginary titles to boost their egos.
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SFSP Survey Of How Credentialed Professionals Feel About Regulating Use of Professional Designations
The Society of Financial Service Professionals (SFSP) is the only professional organization in the industry that requires its members to be credentialed
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The lack of enforcement hurts the credibility of the structured settlement industry when extant bylaws and statement of ethics that stand for a lot in theory, but mean VERY little in reality, leading to apathy and, if it not corrected, will accelerate our industry down the path of structured settlement necrosis.
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One of our watchdog projects for this year has been to clean up the credential puffery and resume omissions or truth stretching (on LInkedIn) that has gone on for far too long in the settlement industry. While reading the ABA Journal online I came across an excellent article simply titled "Keep Your Resume Honest". The…
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In the structured settlement industry some “moments of truth” are unfortunately receiving less attention than they should be and real opportunities are being lost by the insurance companies issuing structured settlement annuities.