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: United States Treasury Structured Settlement
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A Treasury Funded Structured Settlement can be used in virtually every situation that a structured annuity can be used, except life contingent payments. In situations where lifetime income is needed, Treasury Funded Structured Settlements can be paired with an annuity to provide a complete solution.
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Trust companies are regulated by a number of entities and are permitted to pay referral fees for business in accordance with those banking regulations.
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Standard & Poor's placed the United States' debt on negative credit watch and announced today that there is a 50% chance it will downgrade the credit rating of the United States to AA. The ongoing political battles regarding the debt ceiling and the uncertainty of resolution weigh heavily on the rating agaencies. On July 13,…
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The new website of John Bat’s Plaintiff Settlement Solutions Incorporated (“PSSI”, pronounced “Pissy”) is NOT one of “life’s moments that takes our breath away”. As Will Smith might have paraphrased back in the day, time to start “gettin’ pissy with it”
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Structured settlements that are funded with annuities can at best provide a fixed increase that must be determined when the structure is created, compounding annually. This is not bad, but it requires a level of clairvoyance that simply cannot be represented as a cost of living adjustment
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by John Darer CLU ChFC MSSC CeFT RSP CLTC A number of people have been confused by the term "structured investment vehicle" to the degree that they believe it has something to do with the term structured settlement. Rest assured that a structured settlement IS NOT a structured investment vehicle, as that term is defined…
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Anti-Assignment Provisions dilemma. This issue needs to be out on the table despite the fact that many in the structured settlement industry appear not to want it to be. Scared by a notional shrinkage of market capacity, some wish to sweep this issue under the rug instead of taking the issue head on.