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 Transfers
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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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Structured settlements offer financial security for minor plaintiffs but require court approval, sometimes from multiple jurisdictions, especially in complex cases. Following reports of abusive practices, protective measures ensure that transfers of payment rights are adjudicated by familiar courts. This process, though inconvenient, protects against potential exploitation in the secondary market.
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The IRS Structured Settlement Factoring Audit Technique Guide was revised in 2009 and 2020, but has disappered in 2025 without a trace. The guide contained useful information for someone who wants to know the basis for Structured Settlement Protection Acts and IRC 5891, a section often cited by settlement professionals.
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A Structured Settlement Transfer Agreement may include written notice to you that a Servicing Arrangement may be required by the Annuity Issuer? Pay attention! A Servicing Arrangement may encumber the future assignment of the unassigned portion of the settlement payment
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CBC Settlement Funding, of Conshohocken PA is a member of National Association of Settlement Purchasers.Does CBC’s use of branded logos of structured settlement annuity cos.to solicit people to sell structured settlement payments for pennies on the dollar jive with NASP’s standards of business conduct?
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I’m researching demographics of investors who invested in structured settlement receivables sold to the investors as annuities (e.g. secondary market annuities, inforce annuties) in the approach by financial planners (incl.settlement planners) who’ve suffered SuttonPark Payment Servicing Delays. I want to know your stories.
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Mavis Davis, a Texas resident whose stuctured settlement was funded with an annuity from Prudential Insurance Company of America and serviced by SuttonPark. Payments are severely late. Prudential mails checks to SuttonPark but payment isn’t getting to Mavis. Certainly a lump of coal for Xmas
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ALL of the Structured Settlement Transfer Orders for Rescission and Vacation occurred in Okaloosa County Florida, 13 Years AFTER those Structured Settlement Transfer Orders occurred in Sumter County Florida.
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According to Weissman’s latest report, Ryan Blank brought Arthur Badger Jr. to Washington D.C. and “lavishly entertained” him in an effort to persuade Badger to sell his minor daughters’ structured settlement payments, worth millions, for pennies on the dollar to Blank entities.
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Investors, financial advisers and insurers of financial advisors should be mindful of a crucial provision of the 2017 Life & Health Guaranty Associations Model Act (#520) which has been adopted by the majority of the United States when evaluating the suitability of structured settlement receivables as investments.