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: Virginia Structured Settlements
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Structured Asset Funding/123 Lump Sum scored a big point in the first part of a bifurcated Taylor trial in Portsmouth Virginia earlier this week, as Judge Charles Maxfield ruled that Terrence Taylor was a Virginia resident. Taylor had contended he was a resident of West Virginia.
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8 years after Terrence Taylor filed a lawsuit that made national headlines, after numerous motions, copious amounts of legislative privilege, recusals of a judicial circuit. an existential occurrence ( the Colonial pipeline hack) led to 5 months more delay, the rubber is finally hittng the road and Taylor will have at least 2 days in…
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Synergy Defendants Fail to Dismiss SEC Fraud Claims. In a March 24, 2023 ruling, Synergy Settlement Services, Inc., Jason D. Lazarus, Anthony F. Preto, Jr. and Special Needs Law Firm, PLLC have had motions to strike and motions to dismiss denied in the SEC fraud case filed last year.
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When promoting Structured MSA, the devil is in the details. A Structured MSA has tremendous benefits, but a mural of “scary turkeys” known as “speedy thieves” in the scientific community, is not exactly what I would have in mind to promote them.
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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 disabled black man’s legal case, a 2015 lead story in the Washington Post, has languished for 7 years, delayed by parties who profited from buying his structured settlement payment rights for pennies, grossly disproportionate to the 24 months it took them to erode the victim’s financial security.
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“It’s not in petitioner’s best interest to approve the sale of her structured settlement payments, which have a present value of $140,738, for $10,000. “The Court can’t determine that Petitioner’s best interests are served by her relinquishing to a factoring company 93% of the value of her structured settlement payments.
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Publicity of the specifics of the structure, to benefit the attorney/ law firm marketing, does no service to the attorney’s infant client. Any attorney/law firm that aids the publication of the specifics of an infant’s settlement exposes the minor to inevitable harassment when the cash now vultures circle at age 18
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Can a black man with a structured settlement get a fair shake in Virginia Courts? On this showing it doesn’t seem so. While the issues here transcend race, it’s notable that so far it has been one black man against a bunch of white folk with law degrees and white salespeople.
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Unlike Captain Ahab’s white Moby Dick, this “whale” is a black man whose predators were white with white judges and white lawyers. While it took 2 years to obliterate millions of structured settlement payments in 11 transactions, there has been no progress in his legal case in 6 years..