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: WTF is Going On?
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by Structured Settlement Watchdog This in from one of our readers who alerted us to the following after reading yesterday's post Structured Settlement Annuity in One Wordy "Inarticulate Articulation"” "This also from Settlementblog.net on what I thought was the seminal text on our industry: “Structured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments” is a great book about…
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A significant disparity exists in the regulation of sales practices between the primary and secondary structured settlement markets. Factoring companies often operate without oversight, facilitating use of deceptive tactics to persuade individuals to relinquish their long-term financial stability for pennies.
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Pardon my fleeting skepticism, BUT the fact is that some life insurance company relationship representatives have ended up getting hired by your competitors. Who hasn’t demurred when out with someone from a life insurer who has asked who your biggest clients are?
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Structured Asset Funding, the purchaser of a portion of CT woman’s structured settlement payment rights (and the servicer of the rest) can’t give the CT woman a definitive time each month when she can expect to receive the structured settlement payments that she didn’t sell
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Other commentators have waxed toxic of their disdain for casualty company approved lists. So, having been given the appropriate "stimulus" I've decided to weigh in. One wonders what "dinosaur" of the structured settlement industry is advising a P&C company to remain nameless which today proffered, through its legal representative, to one of our readers, an…
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The root cause of servicing is that the unnamed structured settlement annuity issuers do not want to split payments. This means that even if the tort victim does not want to sell all payments they must give up their ability to deal directly with the annuity issuer and must instead deal with a third party