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 Transparency Initiative
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A Shawnee OK woman was shafted when a buyer of structured settlement payments took more out of the deal than she did. That a buyer can use opaque pricing while not giving seller (and judges who must determine if the transaction is in seller’s best interest), tools to make comparisons is loony.
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4structures.com LLC has a long established practice of transparency. Such transparency is embodied in a written statement on our website as well as a case specific declaration or affidavit to accompany moving papers where a proposed structured settlement must be approved by a judge.
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Does having structured settlement payments paid into a settlement preservation trust provide better protection than simply relying on state structured settlement protection statutes?
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The National Association of Settlement Purchasers has taken credit for reforms spawned by bad business practices within in a “shadow industry” to the industry that industry leader’s denied was happening prior to Washington Post exposes that began to appear in August 2015
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Richart Ruddie of JRR Funding and Profile Defenders was among those sued by Las Vegas sports betting giant Bill Walters for conspiracy and deceptive practices. Walters said Defendants put up phony websites to trick gamblers into thinking they were buying betting tips from him.
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Cash now pushers routinely pay bribes to structured settlement annuitants as an inducement to sell their valuable future payment rights. Absence of anti-kickback legislation has resulted in kickback frequency of epic proportions, staggering in proportion to the anti-kickback limits of other legitimate financial business
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If you are thinking about doing business with cash for annuity company that offers to buy your structured settlement, only do business if the structured settlement buyer gives up its real address. If a company will not give up its real location you simply have to ask yourself why?
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IRC 5891 and various state structured settlement protection acts, including the Florida act, were meant to give confidence to sellers and buyers of structured settlements not be part of an in and out 3 ring circus
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The timing of the post is helpful in narrowing down who has been involved in cowardly defaming me over the past months. The Genex Capital officer, its CEO Roger Proctor, is the only one with both a motive to post, employ or collaborate with someone to post this junk, and involved with the Mr S…
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by John DarerAn interesting case continues to percolate in Illinois Courts involving contingent commissions paid by smaller and mid-sized insurance brokers. Chicago Business reports on the Illinois Appellate Court's Valentines Day ruling , which overturned the dismissal of the 2005 suit by Crystal Lake manufacturer DOD Technologies against Mesirow Financial, and saying it could open…