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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The Shaw settlement agreement, even more than the one in Nutt, clearly limited the government’s responsibilities to the initial lump-sum payments and the purchase of the annuity, without requiring it to guarantee the future payments from the annuities.
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2017 was quite a year, punctuated by the tax reform bill which leaves fundamental structured settlement tax rules intact. Here’s a digest of the 2017 Year in Review, including game changing news resulting from outrageous conduct in the structured settlement secondary and tertiary market.
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Tthere was NO dispute about the amounts K-Mart should pay to states and the federal government; that there was NO controversy concerning the releases K-Mart would receive in exchange for payments and that there was NO dispute about the amount of (relator) Ireland’s share or his attorney’s fees.”
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It’s the well-established policy of the USA to oppose any attempt byan annuitant, payee or beneficiary to assign, transfer, sell, or factor annuity payments from an annuity contact owned by the United States, which was purchased as part of a structured settlement of an FTCA claim.
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It’s notable that the annuity agent on the Shaw case was Merrill Lynch Settlement Services, Inc. which appears to have utilized a cheap annuity from Executive Life, ignoring some unavoidable facts, apparently including Merrill Lynch internal guidelines.
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The United States Court of Federal Claims ruled that the U.S. is not obligated to cover a shortfall for an annuitant over 30 years after settling personal injury litigation with the Department of the Army.
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The US Department of Justice has shown itself to be a superior structured settlement bulwark against factoring.. Judge Kimberly Bonner concluded that the annuity prohibited assignment and (2) that the Sarasota Circuit lacked jurisdiction to grant the petition to transfer structured settlement payment rights
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Who are prospects for structured settlement annuities? Is conventional thinking about structured settlements too limiting?
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United of Omaha Life Insurance Company! The Mutual of Omaha subsidiary is in the midst of a roll out which will offer greater choices to structured settlement recipients and increase the competitiveness of the structured settlement marketplace.
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John Darer reviews the difference between a Structured Settlement Annuity and Single Premium Immediate Annuity (SPIA).