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: Towson Structured Settlements
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The discount rate the educated annuitant negotiated was sub 5%! It shows that if you must go down the road of parting ways with stable tax free structured settlement income you absolutely must shop around. The company that low balled you might actually pay the most when in competition.
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A structured settlement broker is a licensed and regulated professional who provides professional advice and places structured settlement annuities and may provide fianncial advice and placement of financial vehicles pursuant to professional licenses.
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Charles E. Smith’s Structured Settlement IPA Work | The “Pffft” That Keeps on Lingering in Maryland. Shafted more than a dozen Maryland citizens receiving Allstate structured settlements with incompetent shoddy advice that was on so many levels not in their best interest.
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A number of Mass Tort law firms are investigating the business conduct of structured settlement factoring companies and they are “going to get these companies and the independent advisers who enable this ‘highway robbery’ to take place”
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The Washington Post’s Terrence McCoy’s thoughtful in depth expose attempts to shine a bright light on what he calls the little-noticed, effectively unregulated netherworld of structured settlements”. The unique confluence of factors in Maryland constitutes the “perfect storm of bad stuff”,
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Smith allegedly advised an illiterate, intellectually disabled 20 year old on the sale of a structured settlement (designed to protect her for life) for a severely discounted amount of cash, without meeting her or providing counsel on the potential consequences of selling the structured settlement payments
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Maryland regulations established in the wake of the Access Funding debacle make it unlawful for a factoring company, or “structured settlement transferee,” to acquire structured settlement payment rights in Maryland without first registering with the Office of the Attorney General.
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Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has contested six proposed structured settlement factoring transactions that unregistered corporations filed in Maryland state court to buy structured settlement payment rights, spurring the withdrawal of five of the petitions.