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: The “Shriek” of the Week
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Why is there no regulation concerning who can legally advise annuitants concerning the disposition of structured settlement payment rights, who can legally advise investors about the purchase of structured settlement payment rights, what is acceptable business conduct and what is prohibited?
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The Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland simply cannot be considered a reliable source of consumer information for Maryland consumers after it maintained an A+ for a defunct purported entity that was operated by a dishonest Mt Airy man who used fake identities with the BBB.
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In just over 24 months, 11 transfer orders were granted in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 10 of which were submitted by the same attorney and approved by the same judge, which effectively divested an amputee burn victim of his structured settlement that was designed to last for his entire lifetime,
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Disgruntled Dick Risk looks foolish for his hemispheric portrayal of the structured settlement industry as Rocky “getting pummeled”. As a fighter, Rocky kept getting up after gettng down. Never gave up. It merely demonstrates that Dick Risk may have hoisted on his own petard..
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What will it take for the structured settlement industry to produce $6 billion in annual annuity premium? Not much, if you consider the following immutable facts
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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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The “stoning” of structured settlements is a misdirection. Structured settlements were not the problem with ELNY and they are not the problem. To generalize that structured settlements were the problem is not telling the whole story.
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Does forum shopping invalidate a structured settlement transfer order and at what impact to the seller,buyer and investor and the United States Treasury?
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A structured settlement IS NOT a scam. A structured settlement is a voluntary agreement between at least two parties in which the paying party promises to make future periodic payments to the receiving party as part of the consideration to resolve a legal dispuite
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As a result of the settlement of litigation against Genex Capital and Genex Strategies, Inc by Woodbridge Structured Fudning. in June 2015, Genex had to disclose its involvement in SSQ on the SSQ website. Wonder why they just didn’t do so in the first place.