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 settlement secondary market attacks on Berkshire Hathaway’s Hardship Exchange Program are generally rooted in self-serving distorted logic explained here. They covet the “herds of prey” like predators on the Serengeti Plain, it’s no wonder that glasses of “whine” have been raised by buyers.
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The Hartford sale of Talcott Resolution was completed | Annuity, Structured Settlement, Life Run Off
Talcott Resolution, based in Windsor CT, is the run off company for The Hartford’s legacy life and annuity business. including structured settlement annuities (which Hartford Life stopped writing in April 2012).
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It’s undeniable that selling your structured settlement to Lawson Capital Funding, or similar company, is a sure way to lose mone. Why give up guaranteed income to pay for a vacation you can’t afford? Save income from your job, if employed, or your structured settlement job”, like everyone else?
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The fact that “settlement planners” are using the term “structured settlement planning”, separate and distinct from “settlement planning” is recognition of the specialized knowledge and skill in planning with structured settlements. A structured settlement is a core settlement planning tool. FACT.
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by John Darer CLU ChFC MSSC CeFT RSP CLTC University of Maryland Law Professor Opines That Structured Settlement Transfers Involving Lead Paint Victims Should Be Unlawful In Structured Settlement Sales and Lead-Poisoned Sellers: Just Say No”, University of Maryland Law Professor Karen Syma Czapansky questions whether courts should permit sales of periodic payments under…
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A legal case that teaches us that not all parents are honest with their children’s money. It teaches us the importance of good structured settlement documentation and follow thourgh. Nicole Herivaux v Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Marie Herivaux, Supreme Court of the State of New York Index 650783/0217
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MetLife, Inc. announced in January 2018 that it intends to merge two subsidiaries Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company and General American Life Insurance Company. The surviving brand will be Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company, which underwrites structured settlement 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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Scathing testimony by Andrew Hoffman about forum shopping at Client First Settlement Fundingand other sales practices. “He was instructed to fly to NY, drive her to VA for about 3-day spell to establish residency in the State of VA in an apartment complex. So as the 3 day ended they had her sign in VA…
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The proposed “structured settlement” was touted as a structure to be purchased through a 3rd party to be facilitated TX law firm. The “annuity” proposed was in fact a “receivable purchase agreement” involving purchase of payment rights from a structured personal injury settlement from a CA case.