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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Commentary by structured settlement expert John Darer that may be of interest to injured persons, guardians, consumers, lawyers, businesses in Syracuse NY Onondaga County with personal injury or wrongful death claims or lawsuits. employment related claims, intellectual property claims or lawsuits
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Niagara Judge Matt Murphy said February 17, 2021 “approving the petition of Tiger Parrish LLC would effectively deprive New York courts of their role under the Structured Settlement Protection Act and transfer that role to Mr. Eglow, who is not bound by the statutory and precedential standards*.
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A number of personal injury lawyers, including those admitted to the NY Bar, represent structured settlement factoring companies, the pennies on the dollar for structured settlement merchants. The same lawyers and/or firms solicit business from personal injury victims.
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You do not need to name an annuity beneficiary in your will because all it will do is delay the payment of proceeds while the Estate of the decedent is probated. Naming a beneficiary with the annuity issuer results in much faster and less costly distributions following the death of the annuitant payee.
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The Lape decision in Monroe County opens up an avenue for any payee in the United States to sue structured settlement factoring companies for fraud and deceptive business practices.
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A video inaccurately claims that annuity-based attorney fee deferral programs must use offshore funds. The author clarifies that domestic structured settlement annuities can fund attorney fees without going offshore. Various reputable insurance companies offer options that cater to attorneys seeking to enhance their wealth through these deferral programs.
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American General has recently introduced a number of periodic payment innovations to the structured settlement market Interest Rate Linked Structured Settlements (IRLSS) and Non Qualified Assignment Facility with Domestic Assignment Company and Ability to Defer
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Hindert acknowledges that some brokers and settlement planners package and promote factored structured settlement payment rights as tax-free “in-force annuities.” Significantly Hindert warns, these investments are not annuities and they are not structured settlements
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Neither the beneficiary of this structured settlement nor any other assignee shall have the power to assign the periodic payments to any third party without a genuine hardship and even then only with the advice of counsel. Any purported assignment in violation of this provision shall be void ab initio.
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If the payee entered into the structured settlement within 5 years prior to the date of the transfer agreement, then the transferee must provide notice to the payee’s attorney of record at the time the structured settlement was created California Code, Insurance Code – INS § 10139.5(f)(2)(L)
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At the plaintiff’s home to notarize confidential settlement documents to establish a structured settlement, the notary public mentioned that she knew someone who “could get the client more money” and called a representative of a structured settlement factoring company from another state