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: WV Structured Settlements
structured settlement news of general intererest to lawyers, law firms and residents of West Virginia, including the towns of Morgantown, Marinsburg, Clarksburg, Beckley and White Sulphur Springs
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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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How are structured settlements paid out? Structured settlements are most often funded with customized structured settlement annuities and can be paid out in one or more ways.
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Structured settlement annuities had a RECORD 4th quarter of 2022, as increasing awareness of rising interest rates looking good against a volatile stock market, plummeting crypto and hard work by industry members, catapulted industry production to close to its all time record achieved in 2019.
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A settlement planner claims, “If the money is placed in a traditional investment, then any growth is subject to income taxes.” This statement is not entirely accurate, as it overlooks capital investments that generate capital gains when comparing traditional investments to structured settlements.
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Now is the time to make good use of stuctured settlements and build enduring guaranteeed income streams.Compelling yields in Excess of 5% are possible on intermediate and long term cash flows. Why take risk when you don’t have to?
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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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Why doesn’t JG Wentworth Get Full Credit? 1. A structured settlement IS NOT an annuity 2. According to IRC 5891, the section of the Internal Revenue Code that is the “Mack Daddy”at the core of the stuctured settlement factoring business, JG Wentworth’s business: it is an arrangement.
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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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Parties to a settlement should consider the possibility that a copy of a confidential Settlement Agreement may be uploaded to a state court’s online portal as exhibits to petitions for structured settlement transfers submitted to State courts and address accordingly.