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 Settlements and Politics
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Certified Financial Transitionists may be helpful to help manage expectations of family, friends and others and to help sort through, organize, prioritize and make it easier to process your options. John Darer, a settlement planning expert and Certified Financial Transitionist reviews the issues here.
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In “The Wonderful World of Structured Settlements”, I see streams of green, lump sums too; tax-free payments for you, you and you; and I think to myself, what a wonderful world, ohhh yeah. “Streams of Green”, as in customized payment streams of money from a structured settlement,
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“I just saw John Bair at a political fund raiser in NYC Wednesday night….and he was laughing out loud at how proud he was to have John Edwards in his camp….”.said an observer at the event. A parody to the tune of “The Gambler” made famous by Kenny Rogers
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Damning fax cover sheet from the office of John T. Bair, EPS Settlements Group dated March 5, 2002, case in which ‘plaintiff exclusive” John Bair represented the Defendant’s insurer What other explanation is there for John Bair to omit EPS from his employment history and “move the chains” back to 1999?
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Mr. Ostrov’s absurd justification for ridiculously high structured settlement factoring discount rates, led to an email that fingers Ostrov, characterized as a poverty pimp, “the man who wants to be in our legislature, was there (at Peachtree Settlement Funding) at the time of the Patricia Chambers disgrace”.
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Dear Senator Edwards, In light of today's revelations I no longer require a response to my open letter to you of March 27, 2007 Download letter_to_john_edwards_032720007_sent_via_johnedwards_2008_website.pdf . I no longer care about the circumstances surrounding your connection to or "endorsement" of Forge Consulting, LLC. Very truly yours, John D. DarerStamford, Connecticut Download forge_feb_21_2007_letterny_statejohn_bair.pdf
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John Edwards still won’t admit that he never used Forge Consulting for structured settlements but still gave them a professional endorsement. “Bundlers” like Bair funnel far more money to campaigns than they could personally give under campaign finance laws.
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Structured Settlements are NOT enacted. They are reached as a result of compromise between two or more parties to a claim or lawsuit. If it took an “act of Congress” or state government to create every structured settlement who knows where we’d all be!