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 Protection Acts
News about structured settlement protection acts and how they are applied. Commentary about the adequacy of provisions in some sttaes’structured settlement protection acts based on anecdotal case stories.
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MJ Settlements appears to be heading toward a potential conflict with several life insurers over the use of their trademarked logos on its website to promote structured settlement receivables to investors, while misleadingly labeling these receivables as annuities in a deceptive manner.
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SuttonPark Victim in Connecticut Could Lose Home Due to Late Serviced Structured Settlement Payments
Betsy Ross was laid off from her job with an insurance company with no severance last month. The misery is compounded with her structured settlement payments severely affected by the SuttonPark servicing fiasco. Without the income from the job and no severance, she may soon lose her home
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The 11th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has pulled the plug on Lujerio Cordero’s Serial Structured Settlement Factoring Case, following the majority opinion in the NY Court of Appeals in April 2023..11th Circuit notes that Cordero DID NOT sue the Structured Settlement Factoring Companies
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“This is a much needed step to ensure that our most vulnerable South Carolinians are no longer preyed upon by unscrupulous flim-flam artists,” South Carolina governor Henry McMaster said upon signing the upgraded structured settlement protection bill into law on May 16, 2023.
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In Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Co. v. Roosevelt Land Partners Corp., the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a lower judge erred in allowing Donald Hill’s attempted transfer of his structured settlement payments because it would violate the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. ”
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Cordero’s 30 year perioid certain has 360 monthly payments, full stop,.Period certain structured settlement annuities require no medical underwriting. Pricing of a period certain annuity is unaffected by medical information. There are no medical questions on a structured settlement annuity application.
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SC Structured Settlement Protection Act | Following a multipart expose of structured settlement annuitants being exploited by structured settlement factoring companies a bill has been introduced in the South Carolina Senate seeking to amend Section 15-50-25 of the South Carolina Code of Laws
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On October 14, 2022, Judge Charles Maxfield granted Terrence Taylor’s motion to compel discovery against Structured Asset Funding and related entities. The motion had been pending for 7 years, 3 TIMES as long as it took Portsmouth judges to approve 11 factoring transactions
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Requiring structured settlement transfer petitions to be heard in the same court where the Structured Settlement was established makes sense as does mandating Independent Professional Advice and/or Neutral Guardians in South Carolina, and should not be limited to attorneys checking a box..
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The structured settlement transfers involving the Badger children, representing a return of about 7 cents on the dollar, were among the most lopsided South Carolina factoring deals reviewed by McClatchy, which compiled complete data for more than 1,400 structured settlement transfers.