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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New York judges are among the most astute judges on the subject of structured settlement factoring.
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The New York Court of Appeals, certified from the 11th Federal Circuit to address the focal point of plaintiff’s allegation, whether or not there is an implied covenant in anti-assignment provisions in the settlement agreement and qualified assignment. From Cordero v Tranamerica et al. .
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How a Single Claimant Qualified Settlement Fund Was Recently Used to Circumvent an Insurer’s Approved List of Structured Settlement Annuity Companies
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Canada law requires that structured settlements must:(1) arise in respect of a claim for damages related to personal injury or death; (2) be funded by a single premium annuity that’s non-assignable, non-commutable, nontransferable; (3) Payments must be irrevocably directed to the payee of the annuity.
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Financial advisors, licensed insurance agents and settlement planners who sell “subsets” of structured settlement payment rights, athlete contracts and such as “secondary market annuities” to unsuspecting clients are creating significant potential errors and omissions exposure and worse.
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Baker’s Dozen of Companies Not Licensed or Appointed By Structured Settlement Annuity Issuers Who Can’t Set Up A Structured Settlement For You. Websites To Avoid if Looking to Set Up a Structured Settlement
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40% of investors in factored structured settlement payments are hedge funds, 50% are life insurance companies and 10% individual investors. Would an audit shown rhedge funds and life insurers are profiting from some of the worst cases of financial rape of minorities, and retirees?
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Buy structured settlement receivables at your peril investors. That is the message that a November 2018 decision by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals overturning a 2017 summary judgment in favor of a PA couple who, on the advice of an adviser, bought “a secondary market annuity” with retirement funds.
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In Sumter County “news”, a blindfolded #Structuredsettlement awaits its fate after being ping ponged and poached like yesterday’s breakfast aafter being handed off to an unlicensed #structuredsettlements factoring company, which hopes to make a killing.
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McMillan alleges that Seneca One, LLC, Structured Asset Funding and Settlement Capital Services Plus LLC engaged in civil theft, exploitation of the disabled and a systematic scheme to defraud him and the Court in Sumter County in the NY to Florida forum shopping case.