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 “Servicing” By Factors
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Structured settlement servicing is necessary because some structured annuity issuing life insurance companies choose not to split annuity payments. The annuitant must transfer ALL of their structured settlement payment rights (even the unsold portion) to a factoring company or servicing entity
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Bracy validates my servicing question and states that while insolvency of the factoring company may result in the annuitant ultimately getting their payments, there “surely will be a delay and there may be costs involved” to the annuitant..The same conclusion that TX lawyer Bruce Akerly and I reached in October 2009.
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John Darer’s prescient Oct 2009 interview of Dallas bankruptcy attorney Bruce Akerly on the potential impact of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy of a structured settlement receivable servicing company on the annuitant’s remaining payments, 15 years prior to SuttonPark’s ignominious demise.
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It is clear that a servicing agreement with a factoring company or payment servicer that goes Chapter 7 bankruptcy may be, at best, an “inconvenience” to the structured settlement annuitant. Such inconvenience (or worse) may involve additional costs and emotional capital.
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Does the silence mean that neither the structured settlement industry or factoring industry give a crap about the structured settlement payment “servicing” question? Or is there something to hide?
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Due to the funding delays, which caused major construction setbacks and penalties, and her father’s declining health, she regrets that the dream she sacrificed part of her financial future for—her father moving into the in-law suite—might never come true.
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J.G. Wentworth announced that the confirmation hearing for the prepackaged bankruptcy plan filed May 19, 2009 for its non-operating holding company affiliates has been set for June 1, 2009. J.G. Wentworth reports that over 90% of the term lenders (the only creditors affected by the plan) approved the plan prior to filing. The JGW cash…
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Hey there Little Red Riding Hood You sure are looking good You’re everything that a big bad wolf could want. Owoooooooo! I mean baaaaaa! Baaa? The closing lyrics of Sam the Sham and Pharoahs 1966 classic gold hit "Little Red Riding Hood" provide a delicious opening for my report of JG Wentworth’s latest attempt to…
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Structured Settlement Watchdog John Darer has documented unfair, deceptive and abusive factoring acts and/or practices for almost 20 years. Now the NSSTA has created the Fair Factoring Fund. What will The Fair Factoring Fund do? What Will the Funds Raised by the Fair Factoring Fund be used for?
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The root cause of servicing is that the unnamed structured settlement annuity issuers do not want to split payments. This means that even if the tort victim does not want to sell all payments they must give up their ability to deal directly with the annuity issuer and must instead deal with a third party