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 Arkansas
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Common issues related to structured settlement quotes and funding which should be of interest to plaintiff attorneys, plaintiffs, insurance adjusters, defense attorneys and other interested parties or stakeholders in the structured settlement process across the United States
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Thinking about what happens to structured settlement payments after the death of the Measuring Life, which of these four statements is correct?
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An Oregon Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) previously found that a Plaintiff’s structured settlement annuity was not an excluded resource for purposes of SSI. In a 2-21-2020 decision, the decision was REVERSED and this matter was REMANDED for recalculation of benefits. Here’s the story
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Life is not an arc as the structured settlement broker says. Transitions are an iterative process not a linear process. While life may throw you a couple of curve balls, life itself is neither linear nor a smooth curve like an arc.
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Payees have sued the USA over ELNY shortfalls and failed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Langkamp case focuses on the settlement agreement. The USA’s commitment was inherent in the language of the agreement, the opinion by Judge Haldane Robert Mayer said.
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Under French law, any partners and children will receive a monthly benefit of up to 80 percent of his salary until what would have been his retirement age and then a share of his pension. C’est la vie!
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2018 was a good year for structured settlements. Preliminary reports suggested after the end of the 3rd Quarter that industry production might again exceed the symbolic $6 billion. Market volatility, interest rate improvements in the 2nd half of the year, new products and companies available to a larger group producers and greater sophistication of industry…
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Lead plaintiff John Griffiths and I got ahead of this, making the discovery in Fall 2014. The 2015 class action filed by Marcus & Auerbach led to what can only be seen as a positive result for over 4,000 annuitants. Nobody lost money, no money was in imminent danger and this was nipped in the…
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A Qualified Assignment is Not a “Pickled Pepper”. In order to make a qualified assignment of an obligation there needs to be an obligation to assign. Arranging to have something dedicated is not an obligation. If I dedicate the next song to you, that is not an obligation.
