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.
recent posts
- Corinthian Museum of Content Barfing — News Flash
- SettlementDecisions Episode 5: What SettlementDecisions Really Is — A Lead Funnel, Not an Information Source
- Structured Settlement Annuity Guarantees Help Financial Peace of Mind
- How Sheron Jones Was Exploited — And Why D.C.’s Failure to Mandate IPA in SSPA Enabled It
- Attorney Fee Structured Settlement Factoring
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Category: Washington DC Factoring Companies
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The Sheron Jones case illustrates the exploitation of a cognitively impaired individual by Vintage Equity Group, which manipulated her into relinquishing her structured settlement payments. Despite her inability to understand the transaction, the court overlooked necessary safeguards. This highlights the urgent need for mandatory Independent Professional Advice in D.C. to protect vulnerable claimants.
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SettlementDecisions claims to have identified all actively licensed structured settlement buyers in the U.S., asserting rankings and comparisons. However, no state licenses such buyers; instead, they require registration, which is not equivalent to licensing. The claims rest on fictitious credentials and a self-referential validation loop, misleading consumers about industry standards.
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District Settlement Finance flubbed badly by displaying the Courts of “Waterbury County CT in its silly mailer. Sorry District Settlement Finance, no such county in CT. Oakville, where Brown lives, is in Litchfield County, CT. Waterbury, the Judicial District of the Court’s location is in New Haven County.
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Our sources indicate that certain originators of structured settlement factoring transactions employ disposable DBAs, which could arguably be detrimental to both the sellers of structured settlement payment rights and the investors in structured settlement receivables
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According to Weissman’s latest report, Ryan Blank brought Arthur Badger Jr. to Washington D.C. and “lavishly entertained” him in an effort to persuade Badger to sell his minor daughters’ structured settlement payments, worth millions, for pennies on the dollar to Blank entities.