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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The critique of Natalie Bracco’s views on structured settlements reveals significant inaccuracies. It argues that selling settlements results in substantial financial loss, contradicting her claims of minor fees. The analysis highlights that Bracco lacks understanding of the legal and financial implications, urging caution against her misguided recommendations to invest in low-performing assets.
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Cedric Martez Thomas cut a bad deal with 365 Advance Services to sell $6.6 million in structured settlement payments or about one fifth that amount $1,037,000 when our structured settlement secondary market scan says that he could have reaped as much as $2,500,000 more in cash.
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If your structured settlement, the ‘job you cannot be fired from” is keeping you above the median of the middle class, why would you sell it? Why would you jeopardize it, unless you really had no other alternative?
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No such thing as a structured annuity settlement. A structured annuity, also known as a structured settlement annuity when used as a qualified funding asset, is one way to fund a structured settlement.
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Florida poses significant risk for structured settlement annuitants where the judge does not perform a thorough in-person examination of the annuitant by a before approving a structured settlement transfer. The Cedric Martez Thomas and James McMillan cases are examples of New Yorkers getting “gatored”.
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A structured settlement is a river of income, not a sand castle subject to the ebbs and flows of a tide, a rake or the latest deposits of seagull guano
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How have Betsy Resnick and her colleagues personally determined that the souls of those whose names are being scraped “in about 50 jurisdictions” and hocked, want to sell their structured settlements?
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How is it that a judge in Broward County Florida, with a duty to make a determination that the sale was in a person’s best interest, approved an April 2014 sale of structured settlement payment rights leaving a man set up to fail?
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Scrutiny has descended upon the Sumter County courthouse of Judge Michelle Morley in Bushnell, Florida, a place so popular with structured settlement cash-now pushers that it might as well offer a frequent petitioner loyalty program for its “pennies on the dollar” deals.
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Efforts of AAPD, Congressmen Cartwright and Sensebrenner are appreciated, but they and their colleagues must do more to protect disabled structured settlement annuitants. States must do more. It is not simply the matter of education. New laws must be passed to better protect them