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 in California
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When does an insurance company start to flag a structured settlement factoring case for intervention? Are insurers doing enough, or should an insurer have a greater role in protecting its insured structured settlement annuitants from abusive structured settlement cash now hustlers now and in the future?
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Executive Life Insurance Company of New York structured settlements were also placed by plaintiff structured settlement advisors, including one, who at one time was one of the the largest contributors to AAJ, then known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
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When you use your credit card or finance a purchase, you are taking on debt, When you sell your structured settlement payment rights, you are liquidating all or a portion of an asset and you will never get it back.
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The septic tank fills with the toxic “sewage” of members of the National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP). A lawsuit has been filed by a whistleblower against settlement purchaser BofI Federal Bank in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
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CaseAdvance Inc. may fancy itself as the AAA of cash advances at press time CaseAdvance Inc. does not in fact have any rating with the Better Business Bureau as you can clearly in the screen shot.
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The use of the term “over-structuring” creates a “pantomime villain” for the annuitant and the settlement planner and/or cash now pusher to attack, even if the claims may be baseless in that the villain is molded by the annuitant’s own profligate spending or bad investments.
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There doesn’t appear to be any evidence that an investor /purchaser of structured settlement payment streams in the tertiary market entitles the purchaser of the “receivables” to the same state guaranty fund protection that may be afforded the original annuitant. in the event of an underlying insolvency
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ING USA is rebranding as Voya Financial Group, but this change does not currently affect structured settlement payments issued by Security Life of Denver. Payments continue as usual, and those needing to update address, bank accounts, or beneficiaries can contact customer service at 800-238-6273, option 4.
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Secondary Market “Annuities” and Misrepresentation Issues Missed by Law Professors Byrnes and Bloink
Another shout out to members of Congress and Attorneys General advocating regulation of the structured settlement secondary market. If law professors, can get it wrong when educating advisors, on secondary market annuity, can you imagine the trickle down effect on American consumers and investors?