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: West Virginia Structured Settlements
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Christy Bieber JD and her Reviewer Mike Cetera win the Canard of the Week for this recently discovered “Fupped Duck” published in Forbes Advisor
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Anyone who sold structured settlement payments for pennies on the dollar, as insurance against rising rates to “avoid becoming poorer”, would have actually done worse by selling. Most predictions fail to account for the rate you’re already receiving on the cost of the existing structured setttement.
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Judge Charles Maxfield granted the long pending New York Life interpleader motion.Until the lawsuit is adjudicated, New York LIfe will make payments to the Court instead of to the structured settlement factoring companies; their investors and/or assignees,
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Structured Setlements for Minors, Structured settlement annuities are excellent settlement planning tools to provide cash flow certainty where there is a need for certainty. Read more about Structured Settlements for Minors and Young Adults and how they were used effectively for a Kentucky minor
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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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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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The United States Attorney (or his designee) involved in any settlement negotiations shall have the exclusive authority to select an annuity broker from the list of such brokers established by the Attorney General, provided that all documents related to any settlement comply with DOJ requirements,
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Asset based structured settlement assignment fees can run upwards $10,000 on a $1,000,000 case. It’s way more than a normal assignment fee. The fees may not be disclosed and simply built in to the cost. What you may encounter is obfuscation by multiple layers of complexity. That’s not good.
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John Darer warns against structured settlement swaps, which are deceptive sales tactics encouraging individuals to sell their long-term structured settlements for less than worth. He emphasizes that investments from past decades often yield better returns than current market options. Such swaps can jeopardize financial security and incur legal risks. Avoid these schemes.
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Thinking about what happens to structured settlement payments after the death of the Measuring Life, which of these four statements is correct?