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: Truth In Advertising Structured Settlement Factoring
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“Division of Plaintiff Rights” schmooze is a ruse. Bogus solicitation to sell your structured settlement payments to Rising Capital. If you sell to Rising Capital, or any other company like them, your “dough” ain’t rising. “Pennies on the dollar” sure isn’t rising. More like a flaccid souffle
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Client First Settlement Funding is “Missing in Action” while seniors who bought structured settlement payments as an investment have not received payments because proof of living from the underlying annuitant has not been provided.
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Key bullet points to set you straight about some of the questionable claims made by individuals and companies to investors in structured settlement payment rights. Don’t be fooled by glib salespeople who don’t know their product.
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A structured settlement is not an annuity, A structured settlement obligation may be funded with an annuity but the structured settlement itself is not an annuity. This is a fundamental and important distinction for anyone seeking to invest in structured settlement payment rights.
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Financial advisors, licensed insurance agents and settlement planners who sell “subsets” of structured settlement payment rights, athlete contracts and such as “secondary market annuities” to unsuspecting clients are creating significant potential errors and omissions exposure and worse.
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Strategic Capital and other structured settlement factoring companies must do a better job in scrutinizing what they publish. Could Strategic Capital simply ask the Kentucky Justice Association to rewrite the testimonial so it is technically correct instead of publishing falsehood and hoping nobody notices?
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When a structured settlement is factored to raise cash for a Payee, no annuity policy changes hands. Just the rights to payments. The individual receiving structured settlement payments representing his or her damages is no more the owner of an annuity contract than the investor.
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Biggest lies told by participants in the structured settlement secondary market and structured settlement tertiary market
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What Milestone is pitching as an annuity is not an annuity, it is a Structured Settlement Receivable. So a big question is why would Milestone Consulting, led by a licensed insurance agent market something, or allow something to be marketed that is not an annuity, as an annuity?