2023-08-05 12:53
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2023-08-05 12:45
If you have "received a settlement", whether constructive receipt or the actual receipt of a settlement, you're "fupped duck" and may not structure. See Constructive Receipt is Game Over for… Read More
2023-07-26 18:00
Work with a credentialed and experienced settlement planner to explore your options before signing any settlement agreement and release. Related StoriesDiv… Read More
2023-07-24 19:45
As John Darer reviews, it serves nobody to have inaccurate information about structured settlements facing consumers. Silver Dollar Financial's poorly articulated explanation about inheritin… Read More
2023-07-16 14:29
A structured settlement annuity cannot be sold by the annuitant/payee. That hasn't stopped uninformed people from providing misinformation to consumers. What can be sold are the rights… Read More
2023-07-15 21:09
John Darer reviews why divorce statistics validate why structured settlement annuity Issuers, personal injury attorneys and settlement planners must initiate discussions to address reasonabl… Read More
2023-07-05 02:10
If you really think about it, you too may find it quite odd that some promoting annuities, including structured settlement annuities, persist with the lack of awareness using the party joke… Read More
2023-07-03 12:06
NAIC warns of unlicensed legitimate Companies selling unregulated non-insurance products. Factored structured settlement receivables are an unregulated non-insurance product sold by legitima… Read More
2023-06-30 19:05
In Nevada they license prostitutes and stock brokers, accountants and nail salons, but there are no regulations about Licensing of Structured Settlement Factoring Companies and their represe… Read More
2023-06-28 20:54
2017 Revisions to the Life & Health Guaranty Associations Model Act (#520) | No Effect on Structured Settlement Annuitants' Payments and Adopted by 80% of US states. Closes f… Read More
2023-06-26 11:17
In 2013 Hindert considered that a pitfall occurs if settlement documents include anti-assignment clauses, which do not specifically reference and permit transfers pursuant to IRC 5891 and st… Read More
2023-06-24 13:53
The 11th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has pulled the plug on Lujerio Cordero's Serial Structured Settlement Factoring Case, following the majority opinion in the NY Court of Appeals in… Read More
2023-06-20 13:17
North Carolina HB 845 is an act to update the North Carolina Structured Settlement Protection Act to align with the most recent version of the Model State Structured Settlement Protection Ac… Read More
2023-06-13 20:58
AnnuityExpertAdvice is pushing "Annuities" that are not Annuities, as "Annuities for Retrement" Unfortunately it's a day late and a vowel short. Use of "Vowel Deficiency" (Vocalis Defectus)… Read More
2023-06-13 20:27
Ironically, when you sell structured settlement payments for the best you're gonna get..."pennies on the dollar", you're closer to the past tense of the " F" word and Butthead Nirvana, than… Read More
2023-06-11 19:23
Structured Asset Funding/123 Lump Sum scored a big point in the first part of a bifurcated Taylor trial in Portsmouth Virginia earlier this week, as Judge Charles Maxfield ruled that Terrenc… Read More
2023-06-06 13:54
8 years after Terrence Taylor filed a lawsuit that made national headlines, after numerous motions, copious amounts of legislative privilege, recusals of a judicial circuit. an existential o… Read More
2023-06-06 02:38
Broward County factoring company solicits structured settlement annuitants and mischaracterizes pennies on the dollar as (1) a Summertime Jackpot, (2) a Sizzling Lump Sum of Cash, (3) to "ca… Read More
2023-06-04 23:55
A structured settlement is financial solution that addresses what most people in America worry about the most. Structured settlements should always be considered in the settlement planning m… Read More
2023-06-03 00:27
Cordero's 30 year perioid certain has 360 monthly payments, full stop,.Period certain structured settlement annuities require no medical underwriting. Pricing of a period certain annuit… Read More
2023-05-30 16:42
Structured settlements In wrongful death cases. Wouldn't a personal injury law firm want their clients have ALL options available? Structured settlements, a solution to "one of the things th… Read More
2023-05-26 05:56
Czapanskiy misses the absurdity that unlike other financial services, there is little to no regulation of structured settlement factoring companies or individuals soliciting the sale of stru… Read More
2023-05-22 14:31
You might deserve a bubble bath as a "reward", but you don't deserve to get soaked financially by selling your structured settlement for pennies on the dollar. "Off the deservation", Stone… Read More
2023-05-20 13:46
While such occurrences are rare, Colorado investors in other people's structured settlement payments should know, before they invest, about the potentially devastating consequences to their… Read More
2023-05-18 14:20
“This is a much needed step to ensure that our most vulnerable South Carolinians are no longer preyed upon by unscrupulous flim-flam artists,” South Carolina governor Henry McMas… Read More
2023-05-18 14:09
Acquired structured settlement payment rights are not snnuities or insurance products.While insurance insolvencies are rare, they do happen. Investors are exposed when they invest in such re… Read More
2023-05-17 19:44
Plummer shows a lack of understanding of how structured settlements are established and relevant structured settlement history, earning the Canard of the Week honor. Canard of the week is wh… Read More
2023-05-15 04:11
Why Structured Settlements? Because Certain Sells®. We have solutions to deal with the thing that most people worry about the most. Related StoriesPaci… Read More
2023-05-14 01:34
The majority of US states have no insolvency protection for investors in other people's structured settlement payments, leaving some structured settlement payment investors perhaps blissfull… Read More
2023-05-12 21:11
With all the good work that the South Carolina legislature is now doing and working on to create the state of the art Structured Settlement Protection law, an April 16, 2023 opinion piece by… Read More
2023-05-12 06:27
Stone Street Capital's latest dubious sales pitch infers that pawning your structured settlement for pennies on the dollar "will make good things happen to you". Don't believe the hype from… Read More
2023-05-09 13:56
HIndert was honored in 2012 as "a distinguished individual who has supported and defended the right to free alienability of property rights", only months after Cordero sold payments. "NASP c… Read More
2023-05-04 14:53
MetLIfe issues structured settlement annuities via Metropolitan Tower LIfe Insurance Company and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and structured judgment annuities thorugh Metropolitan L… Read More
2023-05-03 18:02
Strucured settlement factoring litigation about the systematic raiding of structured settlement funds through acts of fraud, misrepresentation and negligence that left a seriously injured am… Read More
2023-04-29 17:59
An annuity policy is never issued to the plaintiff when a structured settlement is established. Annuities can be purchased through insurance agents, financial planners, banks and life insura… Read More
2023-04-26 10:09
Based on the New York Court of Appeals' reformulation of the question, it concluded that such allegations do not state a cognizable cause of action for breach of the implied covenant. Plaint… Read More
2023-03-14 17:54
In Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Co. v. Roosevelt Land Partners Corp., the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a lower judge erred in allowing Donald Hill’s attempted transfe… Read More
2023-03-02 16:15
Why would a JG Wentworth ad include the name of one of its competitors on March 2, 2023? Was there a merger or acquistion? Apparently no. JG Wentworth was apparently doing the "Ooey-Go… Read More
2023-03-02 04:43
Annuity.org falsely implies that (1) Peachtree is a regulated entity under the purview of insurance law and regulated by state insurance commissions; (2) that structured settlement factoring… Read More
2023-02-28 03:41
A number of liquidity seeking Allstate structured settlement annuitants were hosed by effectively paying higher than necessary discount rates on structured settlement factoring transactions… Read More
2023-02-25 20:17
Does Qualified Assignment Company Related to Structured Settlement Annuity Issuer Have a Duty to Annuitant to Enforce Anti-Assignment Provisions when facing a Structured Settlement Transfer… Read More
2023-02-14 19:44
Does Qualified Assignment Company Related to Structured Settlement Annuity Issuer Have a Duty to Annuitant to Enforce Anti-Assignment Provisions when facing a Structured Settlement Transfer… Read More
2023-02-12 19:16
Gargan filed a Bivens Action against several federal government officers and employees over his treatment while incarcerated, seeking millions for alleged denial of medical care and violatio… Read More
2023-02-10 18:16
Annuity Expert Advice purports to provide annuity expert advice. Unfortunately for consumers, shawn Plummer's website continues to be laden with inaccuracies about structured settlements and… Read More
2023-02-06 17:17
Time to bring a little more levity to some of the claims that factoring companies make to attract people to sell their structured settlement payment rights through structured settlement fact… Read More
2023-02-06 16:46
Time to bring a little more levity to some of the claims that factoring companies make to attract people to sell their structured settlement payment rights through structured settlement fact… Read More
2023-02-05 09:48
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 Read More
2023-02-04 15:34
Servicing of structured settlement payments is an arrangement that comes about when someone receiving a structured settlement enters into a transaction to sell some, but not all, of their st… Read More
2023-01-27 11:34
One tertiary marketer of factored structured settelment receivables clearly communicated what theyw are stating "Since this is not an insurance transaction it does not require an insurance l… Read More
2023-01-27 09:46
A tragic loss. Neil P. Herald, 56, President of Prestwick Group perished as a result of injuries sustained in a Chicago apartment fire on January 21, 2023, according to the Chicago Sun-Times… Read More
2023-01-23 05:28
District Settlements jibber-jabber about what is effectively pennies on the dollar leading to autonomy and power wins them the Silly Billy award. It's just nonsense. Power is a state o… Read More
2023-01-21 21:20
Has a structured settlement broker or settlement planner altered a NY Life structured settlement quote? It appears so. Is it worth putting your license, appointment and reputation in jeopar… Read More
2023-01-21 06:39
Has a structured settlement broker or settlement planner altered a NY Life structured settlement quote? It appears so. All to attempt to gazump a competitorr on a $100,000 premium case to… Read More
2023-01-19 03:57
Cow Poo is on the menu at Stone Street Capital as it seeks to convince potential customers to collect pennies on the dollar in exchange for the noble act of freeing "cash trapped": in a stru… Read More
2023-01-18 17:05
SC Structured Settlement Protection Act | Following a multipart expose of structured settlement annuitants being exploited by structured settlement factoring companies a bill has been introd… Read More
2023-01-16 05:37
It seems asinine for the Fort Lauderdale structured settlement factoring company to diss at least half of the population when it's not necessary to grab consumers' attention in a tribute to… Read More
2023-01-15 20:10
The total loss of James R. Gibson's clients was $156,194,810.92 and many of them needed the money to support themselves and fund necessary medical treatment Read More
2023-01-05 02:46
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 wo… Read More
2023-01-05 02:43
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 wo… Read More
2022-12-17 20:10
Sell Any Annuity claims to have 75+ years of experience in a display of dogged factoring slobber. If that were true, that would mean that Sell Any Annuity was established in 1947, New… Read More
2022-12-15 17:16
JG Wentworth influencer Sandra Toffoloni self-describes as a "Go Getter. Trend Setter. Net Jetter. Credit Debter. Eddie Vedder. Never Better. Crooked Letter. Bed Wetter. Llama Petter" on Twi… Read More
2022-12-13 09:00
"Division of Plaintiff Rights" schmooze is a ruse. Its ja solicitation to sell your structured settlement payments to Rising Capital. Just to be clear if you sell to Rising Capital, or any o… Read More
2022-12-09 09:19
When it comes to your structured settlement, don't become a victim of aggressive buyers. Stop, breathe,, think and get independent advice, ALWAYS! Read this helpful guide from 4structures if… Read More
2022-12-07 17:29
The last time Adler's Insurance tried to be funny in a structured settlement context, Adler's Annuity Casher posted a caricature of a black man in a cruel mocking of African-American Terrenc… Read More
2022-12-03 02:24
Annuity.org propensity to post discredited inaccurate information about factored stuctured settlement payments, despite editorial reviews and financial reviewers and phlegmatic approach to c… Read More
2022-11-21 06:35
Despite spouting purported editorial standards, time has shown that no matter how hard they try, Annuity.org just can't get stuctured settlements right. The rot contagion spores cross pollin… Read More
2022-11-17 22:14
One settlement planner states that "If the money is placed in a traditional investment, then any growth is subject to income taxes". Not exactly. The answer fails to recognize capital invest… Read More
2022-11-11 16:11
Boghosian, Smith, and Sud prevented the 94 owners of structured settlement payment rights from receiving mandatory independent professional advice. Smith pretended to give IPAs while (throu… Read More
2022-11-11 05:26
The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania and Gregory F. Murphy of North Carolina have formally requested a government-funded study assessing the long-term eco… Read More
2022-11-11 04:55
The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania and Gregory F. Murphy of North Carolina have formally requested a government-funded study assessing the long-term eco… Read More
2022-11-10 06:30
“Do I have to pay taxes on my structured settlement?” asks the Orlando company behind Structuredsettlements.com. The short answer is typically no. StructuredSettlements.com's sca… Read More
2022-11-09 00:26
A 1035 Exchange is not eligible Into or out of an SMA. Secondary Market Annuity is a term that shrouds the truth in a veil of expertise, used by merchants of structured settlement payment ri… Read More
2022-11-08 20:52
A 1035 Exchange is not eligible Into or out of an SMA. Secondary Market Annuity is a term that shrouds the truth in a veil of expertise, used by merchants of structured settlement payment ri… Read More
2022-11-06 14:39
You have a diability and unable to work. You're a senior citizen and dependent on the income. You depend on the fixed income from the structured settlement to pay your living expenses. Would… Read More
2022-11-06 01:59
Readers may have encountered difficulty in accessing the blog at times during the latter part of October 2022 while Typepad, the blogging service we use, was migrating to a new d… Read More
2022-11-04 17:31
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 flow… Read More
2022-10-28 23:39
Structured settlement factoring companies such as those listed in Leonard's Argle-Bargle for Top Ten Reviews, are not licensed insurance companies and do not issue structured settlement ann… Read More
2022-10-26 03:02
One can always count on shills for CBC Settlement Funding to prostitute a really good structured settlement planning idea for pennies on the dollar predation of vulnerable annuitants. Shame… Read More
2022-10-19 04:14
Don't fall for silly mailers sent to structured settlement annuitants saying that you have a structured settlement, refers to "Unclaimed Funds" Structured Settlement "Client Relations… Read More
2022-10-15 19:56
On October 14, 2022, Judge Charles Maxfield granted Terrence Taylor's motion to compel discovery against Strctured Asset Funding and related entities “Structured Settlements are create… Read More
2022-10-13 15:17
An New York attorney for a New York firm that is a heavy promoter of Firmwide QSFs has made quite the gaffe in an article promoting firmwide QSFs. "Payoff/1099 to Defendant"? Oh dear. Firmw… Read More
2022-10-10 06:13
Buying structured settlement payment rights, or rights to payments in the secondary market is not the equivalent of buying an annuity. Buying cash flows from athletes or agents are further r… Read More
2022-10-09 02:04
Joe Gargan, the convicted felon and head of structured settlement broker The Pension Company,. who purloined millions of dollars from the USA taxpayers and a New York City area hospital, wa… Read More
2022-10-04 19:24
Accurate data about structured settlement factoring would be uselful for legislators to understand how big the problem is. Is it small or is it something that sticks out? What we have is a 2… Read More
2022-10-02 18:58
Requiring structured settlement transfer petitions to be heard in the same court where the Structured Settlement was established makes sense as does mandating Independent Professional Advice… Read More
2022-09-28 05:48
CBC Settlement Funding is All Fakakta in Conshocken. CBC says "Structured settlements can provide long-standing income for minors. They gain access to funds at 18 years old to prevent frivol… Read More
2022-09-18 02:34
The Coronavirus may be waning, but the "Kroner-IRS" continues. The IRS appealed, arguing that the Tax Court misinterpreted Section 6751(b)'s requirements. The IRS prevailed… Read More
2022-09-13 01:54
All (structured settlement factoring) matters related to S.C. Code Ann. § 15-50-40 (2005) shall not be referred to Masters-In-Equity or special referees until further order of Chief Jus… Read More
2022-09-12 08:30
The structured settlement factoring transactions involving the minor Badger children, representing a return of about 7 cents on the dollar, were among the most lopsided South Carolina deals… Read More
2022-09-11 23:17
Anyone who sold structured settlement payments for pennies on the dollar, a sinsurance against rising rates to "avoid loss of money", would have actually done worse by selling. Most predicti… Read More
Investigation Into SC Structured Settlement Factoring Predation Rolls Out In 4 Part BOMBSHELL Report
2022-09-09 08:44
Grace did her 1st factoring deal on August 1 2018, the 2nd on August 8, 2018, the 3rd third on September 18, 2018 and 17th factoring deal in November 2021. That's 3 deals in 5 weeks an… Read More
2022-09-09 08:38
AZ Judge DENIES Genex Capital Mption for Reconsideration of June 9, 2022 in favor of Structured Settlement Investors' Right,Title and Isterest in the structured settlement paymnet rights Read More
2022-09-03 20:57
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… Read More
2022-08-31 19:39
Withh this latest development the MIchigan insurance regulator is set to permit the sale of Pavonia Life Insurance Co.of Michigan, another Lindberg company that reinsured a number of insurer… Read More
2022-08-31 06:11
The Pottawatomie Oklahoma District Court found that the Genex Capital Receivable Purchase Agreements lacked any restriction on the POWER of the retired school teacher to assign the structur… Read More
2022-08-29 19:26
Yerkes then sued Anapol Weiss for legal malpractice based upon, among other things, alleged lawyer representations made in alleged communication with Yerkes about Cessna's and the London un… Read More
2022-08-29 07:31
Will the sale of Pavonia Re to the majority owner of JG Wentworth in Michigan trigger a conga line of pennies on the dollar structured settlement transfer activity from JG Wentworth, USA's l… Read More
2022-08-29 05:59
The volatility of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies render them generally unsuitable for injury victims and probably would not be approved for injury victims where court approval of settle… Read More
2022-08-25 05:28
udgeCharles 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 structure… Read More
2022-08-24 17:24
Surely a board member of the National Association of Settlement Purchasers, who is also an attorney, knows that a structured settlement is a form of consideration in a civil matter not a cri… Read More
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