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 Massachusetts
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by John Darer CLU ChFC MSSC RSP CLTC The Federal tax increases, or effective tax increases, arriving in 2013 have both settlement planning and financial planning implications and may have a positive effect on the utility of structured settlements, structured attorney fees and other financial solutions involving structured periodic payments. A. Increase in personal income tax rates…
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A structured settlement is a good way to make the most of a dog bite settlement for children or minors.
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What happens if you have a Medicare set aside account and there is a divorce?
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Settlement expert John Darer CLU ChFC CSSC RSP provides a variety of annuity and non-annuity funded tax deferral solutions for structured attorney fees
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Post settlement underwriting, is a virtual impossibility in states like NY, FL, MA and MN, whose statutes mandates a disclosure of cost to be made by the Defendant or Defendant’s legal representative at the time structured settlement is negotiated (See New York General Obligations Law §5-1702 .
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United of Omaha Life Insurance Company! The Mutual of Omaha subsidiary is in the midst of a roll out which will offer greater choices to structured settlement recipients and increase the competitiveness of the structured settlement marketplace.
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Acknowledge the value of a qualified settlement fund as a settlement planning tool when it is suitable, but avoid employing it indiscriminately based onbroker or planner solicitations, for the reasons detailed in this post.
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Structured settlement annuityisssuing life insuranace companies are crushing banks during the “Great Repression”of 2008-2009. For the purpose of the scoreboard, “failure” is defined as banks shut down by the FDIC, or structured annuity insurers taken over by state insurance departments.