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: Sumter County Structured Settlements
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Did the Seller Seek and Receive Independent Professional Advice BEFORE Selling his strructured settlement payments while he was on Drugs? Drugs “Eff you up” Physically, Selling Your Structured Settlement “Effs You Up” Fiscally. Always seek Independent Professiuoanl Advice
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Selling A Structured Settlement in 2024? Get The 411 on Cash Now. Don’t Be a Victim (4structures.com) Read about Structured Settlement Seller’s Remorse | Wants to Sue JG Wentworth 11 Years Later for actions he took to pay off drug rehab | Can He?
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Despite express communications from Independent Life Insurance company to contrary for more than 4 years, some settlement planners are mispresenting the nature of Independent Life’s ratings and its reinsurance in side by side comparsions and omitting others. The question is why?
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Your “dating habits” can get you into trouble when establishing structured attorney fee programs, attorney fee deferred compensation,and structured settlements for taxable damages..Avoid January 1 payment dates and resulting funds being deposited into your account, arriving before January 1,..
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Work with a credentialed and experienced settlement planner to explore your options before signing any settlement agreement and release.
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In 2013 Hindert considered that a pitfall occurs if settlement documents include anti-assignment clauses, which do not specifically reference and permit transfers pursuant to IRC 5891 and state structured settlement protection statutes”.The losing cause in Cordero had just that.
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The 11th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has pulled the plug on Lujerio Cordero’s Serial Structured Settlement Factoring Case, following the majority opinion in the NY Court of Appeals in April 2023..11th Circuit notes that Cordero DID NOT sue the Structured Settlement Factoring Companies
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Cordero’s 30 year perioid certain has 360 monthly payments, full stop,.Period certain structured settlement annuities require no medical underwriting. Pricing of a period certain annuity is unaffected by medical information. There are no medical questions on a structured settlement annuity application.
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