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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In a long awaited response to member concerns expressed in persistent communications stretching over several years, the National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA) posted a web page about “Promoting the CSSC”, a settlement industry professional certification program that it administers. Response to Unfortunate Credential Puffery The page came about after conversations between officials at the University of…
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University of Notre Dame concerning the manner in which NSSTA members who are CSSC designees are promoting their association with the school. In his response, Paul Slaggert, Director of Non-Degree Programs stated that he would begin discussions with Joe Ricci (Executive Director) at NSSTA so that the proper use of the CSSC designation can be…
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If using the University of Notre Dame in advertising your credentials in a way that omits “in conjunction with the NSSTA” and suggests that you did more than attend a 4 day non degree course then you might wish to sit up and take this more seriously than you previously have. The chains are moving.
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The pillory of errant Certified Structured Settlement Consultants continues with a list of previously unmentioned members of the industry that decouple the CSSC from NSSTA and/or cite their professional credential to the "Lebanese institution", Notre Dame University, intead of University of Notre Dame. Some of the names included this week as they include Presidents of…
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NSSTA’s \ posting of the page “Promoting the CSSC” on the NSSTA web site is a positive, however it needs to be more front and center, in my opinion. NSSTA has an obligation to notify and/or remind the structured settlements consultants (who) have earned the distinguished CSSC designation.
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The structured settlement watchdog continues commentary about shameless and mendacious credential puffery by structured settlement professionals and settlement consultants by exposing those in the industry who just don't get, or worse appear to not care, that "4 days in the vicinity of Touchdown Jesus does not make you one of he Fighting Irish!" Led by…
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we are pleased to post comments from NSSTA members and others in relation to this author’s exposure of mischaracterization of the Certified Structured Settlement designation by other NSSTA members.