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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A Tampa based SEO, who is known to have performed work for structured settlement secondary market clients, endorsed this paid Fiverr gig which raises the obvious question of whether or not fake reviews were used to promote the SEO’s cash now for structured settlement clients like Sovereign and Genex
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The name MJ Structured Settlement Annuties is misleading because what is being marketed as structured settlement annuities is not an insurance product, it is structured settlement receivables, which are not annuities or an insurance product. And there is a big difference.
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The article highlights the unethical practices in the structured settlement secondary market, where firms from the National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP) lure annuitants with checks that incentivize selling their settlements at minimal value. It criticizes the lack of regulation compared to traditional consumer protections against rebating, exposing a systemic exploitation of vulnerable individuals.
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Structured settlement payments can be tax-free for payees if they relate to qualified damages under specific sections of the Internal Revenue Code, such as physical injury or workers compensation. Non-qualified settlements offer tax deferral, usually taxed upon receipt. Consulting a structured settlement advisor is recommended for proper establishment.
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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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Structured settlements are funded with fixed annuities, making periodic payments, by law [see (IRC 130(c)(2(A)] fixed and determinable as to amount and time of payment” issued by life insurance companies which are in the purview of state insurance departments not the SEC…
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If you have a structured settlement annuity, how can structured settlement payments be delivered to you?
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Qualified assignment paragraph 9, the IRC 130(c) unwind clause has from time to time given some defense lawyers “twisted blood” . An unwind of the qualified assignment might hurt the payee as well, if a qualified assignment release and pledge agreement ia used to give the payee a security interest
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A structured settlement is a voluntary agreement reached between the parties to a claim or lawsuit, under which the injured victim receives damages in the form of a stream of periodic payments