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: Symetra Structured Settlements
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A Symetra rep that contacted a structured settlement annuitant had the title of “Sales Specialist” really says it all, doesn’t it? Not “Customer Service” or “Customer Care,” but “Sales Specialist”! And the cherry on top? The letter was sent years before the lawsuit even made its debut. Classic.
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Client First Settlement Funding is “Missing in Action” while seniors who bought structured settlement payments as an investment have not received payments because proof of living from the underlying annuitant has not been provided.
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Court Denied Symetra Motion to Strike Class Allegations. Construing the facts in favor of Plaintiffs, class members would’ve justifiably expected that their interests would be cared for by Symetra and SABSCO, as both entities had direct roles in administering ongoing funding and care under the terms of their underlying settlements.
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Once the structured settlement annuity was in place, SABSCO turns around and preys upon Symetra Life annuitants: SABSCO lures them into selling future periodic payments for a highly discounted lump sum without disclosing and actually concealing Defendants’ profit motive and fatal conflict of interest.
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The structured settlement research is intended to learn the depth at which annuitants of these companies are being targeted by structured settlement factoring companies with deals that are more expensive than that offered by hardship programs offers by annuity issuers themselves.
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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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John Griffiths was the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Aviva and Athene. Athene agreed to provide annuitants a CMA. Some annuitants received a modest financial recovery. A needless, unfortunate episode for the insurers, underscoring the need to be vigilant when insurers transition, or runoff their product lines.
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An annuitant’s representative was able to significantly better the commutation offer of the company holding his client’s structured settlement, with our assistance, simply by shopping around.
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The Symetra withdrawal is part of a “to be expected” consolidation in the structured settlement market place, Hartford Life Insurance Company withdrew earlier this year after returning to the market in 2011.
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A life insurer offering liquidity to its own structured settlement annuitants is not a bad thing if, and only if, the discount rates are competitive with what is offered in the secondary marketplace for structured settlement payment rights.