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
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Structured settlement payments should not be late, “for their very important date” with you. This post may be helpfulif you are concerned about late structured settlement payments.
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A structured settlement annuitant who sold half his structured settlement payments to a South Florida cash now pusher, was subject to a payment servicing agreement that has unfortunately resulted in a payment delay of 15 days and counting.
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Structured settlement payment servicing comes about if you’re only selling part of your structured settlement payment. It’s my understanding that most life insurerswill not split annuity payments. THIS is the reason there’s a need for payment servicing and the scenario where payment servicing applies
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If you sell part of your structured settlements to two or more buyers, it means that even the simplest administrative change requires notification to separate entities, not the annuity issuer that you set up your structured settlement with, The more times you sell,the worse it gets.
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What structured settlement sellers may not know they don’t know about structured settlement payment servicing.
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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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insurance companies who currently won’t dice payments, start dicing payments. This would eliminate any and all need for any structured settlement factoring company to service payments. Those companies who need to service payments should use a third party bonded, insured, and licensed company to handle their servicing.
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At minimum, individuals selling their structured settlement payment rights, where a servicing arrangement will occur, must receive a written disclosure prior to signing an absolute assignment or transfer of structured payment rights, indicating paymens may be delayed.
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What Hindert has never discussed, however, is what our sources tell us is the business practice of structured settlement “servicing” that factoring companies engage in “on virtually every deal” involving a partial transfer, concurrent with the time Hindert was promoting them.
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I am amazed when vendors that I have been doing business for years continue to ask for the same information time and time again. Granted that checking for accuracy is one thing, but taking needless time for both parties is another.