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 New York
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In conducting their role in upholding the New York Structured Settlement Protection Act, do NY judges first determining whether a petitioning settlement purchaser is registered to do business in NY and if not, determining if it is in the “best interest” of a seller of structured settlement payments rights to enter into a transaction with…
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Petitions for infant compromise that include structured settlements in certain New York courts, are being submitted using only the initials of the minor. Does the community really need to know that a minor has an asset, whether it be cash, a trust or structured settlement due to a tragic event?
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RC 5891(b)(1) provides that the excise tax under IRC 5891(a) shall not apply in the case of a structured settlement factoring transaction in which the transfer of structured settlement payment rights is approved in advance in a qualified order. It is these orders that a former Paris & Chaikin paralegal is alleged to have falsified.
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New York’s new rebating bill allow insurers and/or agents to waive commission fees associated with the purchase of structured settlement annuities for families affected by any terrorist attack on the United States.
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Can retired New York State lawyers who have structured attorney fees take an exclusion, on that income, of up to $20,000 intended for retirees on their structured attorney fee income?
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As things stand today, every dollar of pain and suffering is worth more in present value in a structured judgment than the jury verdict.
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If your structured settlement, the ‘job you cannot be fired from” is keeping you above the median of the middle class, why would you sell it? Why would you jeopardize it, unless you really had no other alternative?
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The Lafontant and Taylor cases put structured settlement transfer laws under the spotlight, laws that are supposed to protect individuals from the alleged business conduct that has occurred.
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No such thing as a structured annuity settlement. A structured annuity, also known as a structured settlement annuity when used as a qualified funding asset, is one way to fund a structured settlement.
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Having an expert who understands New York structured judgments can be invaluable to New York based attorneys and their clients at New York City mediations and mediations in Long Island, Westchester, Brooklyn, Syracuse, Binghamton and other parts of New York state.