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: Tampa Structured Settlements
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Questions continue regarding intermediaries, financial planners and settlement planners who distribute structured settlement payment rights (structured settlement derivatives) to investors mislabeled as annuities.
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Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company became the primary underwriting company for MetLife structured settlement annuities. Metropolitan Tower Life was the successor-in-interest to Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company (“MIAC)”, the qualified assignment company used by MetLife structured settlements until December 1, 2004.
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New York Judges who shun a structured settlement in favor of sticking in a local bank or banks to earn interest until the minor is 18, need to be mindful of how such a decision can negatively affect student loan eligibility.
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The rated age action announced by AIG Structured Settlements is a responsible decision for a company that is in business to insure long term obligations. It reflects very positively on AIG’s quality control. In its notice AIG reaffirmed its commitment to the structured settlement industry.
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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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Structured settlements are NOT being forged. Structured Settlement Transfer Orders WERE forged in 234 counts by a New York City paralegal and in a separate matter, 104 counts by a MIami lawyer representing structured settlement buyers in Broward County Florida
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Structured settlement receivables are an investment providing the investor with a single future payment, or a series of future payments funded by the assignment or transfer of future payment rights from someone else’s structrued settlement.
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Are there any ethical considerations for a structured settlement co-broker placing a structured settlement for the defense using the information about the plaintiff’s structure to solicit them in the future for other insurance, advisory or investment products and services by them or third parties?
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Jose Manuel Camacho Jr, the disgraced fraudster Miami lawyer arrested in Fall 2015, who admitted to forging 7 Broward County Florida judge’s signatures on multiple structured settlement transfer orders, will be changing his plea, and will sentenced on August 26, 2016.
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Where college financial aid is needed, it’s important to understand asset disclosure requirements and how assets (and how the assets are titled) impact federal and institutional financial aid as part of the settlement planning process