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: Wisconsin Structured Settlements
Wisconsin Structured Settlements is a collection of blogs and commentary about structured settlements and settlement planning issues that may be of interest to individuals and lawyers with personal injury or wrongful death claims in Milwaukee, Eau Clair, Madison, Green Bay, Appelton, Kenosha, Wisconsin Dells, Wausau pending in Wisconsin state or Federal courts.
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The words “certain” and “guaranteed” are terms used in settlement documents to describe payment obligations in a settlement agreement and in structured settlement annuities and other income annuities. Both are often used in a way that suggests the terms are synonymous, but are they?
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New York Judges who shun a structured settlement in favor of sticking in a local bank or banks to earn interest until the minor is 18, need to be mindful of how such a decision can negatively affect student loan eligibility.
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The rated age action announced by AIG Structured Settlements is a responsible decision for a company that is in business to insure long term obligations. It reflects very positively on AIG’s quality control. In its notice AIG reaffirmed its commitment to the structured settlement industry.
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When does an insurance company start to flag a structured settlement factoring case for intervention? Are insurers doing enough, or should an insurer have a greater role in protecting its insured structured settlement annuitants from abusive structured settlement cash now hustlers now and in the future?
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If convicted Ponzi schemer and Income Stream Exchange Founder Todd Dyer was a defendant in only one fraud case pending before the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, it would have been enough. He is a defendant in three!
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The Stibb’s case is the latest in a series of legal challenges to validity of transfer orders with open cases in Maryland, Virginia, Florida with others percolating around the country that seek to restore payments to structured settlement annuitants.
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Structured settlement receivables are an investment providing the investor with a single future payment, or a series of future payments funded by the assignment or transfer of future payment rights from someone else’s structrued settlement.
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The True Vision Funding attempt to “Pepe Le Pew’ Kyle Stibb for 85% of his structured settlement payments ended in failure and an order to pay the legal fees and costs of Symetra and its qualified assignee SABSCO, as provided for under Washington ‘s Structured Settlement Protection Act.
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Are there any ethical considerations for a structured settlement co-broker placing a structured settlement for the defense using the information about the plaintiff’s structure to solicit them in the future for other insurance, advisory or investment products and services by them or third parties?
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Where college financial aid is needed, it’s important to understand asset disclosure requirements and how assets (and how the assets are titled) impact federal and institutional financial aid as part of the settlement planning process