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Guide to Structured Settlements 2020

  • What is a Structured Settlement? How do I get a Structured Settlement?
    General explanation of structured settlements, including the stable guaranteed income and favorable tax bemefits that give structured settlements their "juice" and a helpful introductory video featuring 2019 AM Best recommended structured settlement expert and Registered Settlement Planner John Darer® of 4structures.com® LLC
  • How Do Structured Settlements Work? Structured Settlement Diagram
    How structured settlements work, accompanied by 4structures.com® LLC's helpful structured settlement flow chart/diagram showing how structured settlements fit in with other settlement planning solutions.
  • Rated Ages and Structured Settlement Cost
    Rated Ages for Structured Settlement Annuities present advantages to all parties. Shift the mortality risk to a life insurance company whose business it it is to assess mortality risk to price its life insurance and annuities. Boost your structured settlement annuity benefit \per premium dollar, or your yield, on lifetime payments. Rated ages help to reduce the cost of funding a Medicare Set Aside arrangement where a Structured MSA is being used.
  • Structured Settlement Annuity Companies 2020
    Which life insurance companies issue structured settlement annuities going into 2020? A list of current structured annuity issuers, the location of their home offices and their financial ratings from A.M. Best, Moodys, Fitch, Standard & Poors, links to their websites and other useful information.
  • Treasury Funded Structured Settlements
    Treasury Funded Structured Settlements are a settlement option for the most conservative using the OTHER permissible qualified funding asset under IRC 130(d), United States Treasury Bonds in addition to, or instead of, structured settlement annuities. Treasury Funded Structured Settlements can also be used to fund installment sales, also known as structured sales and other non qualified structured settlements.
  • Compare Structured Settlement IRR to Other Settlement Alternatives
    Use the Taxable Equivalent Yield chart to help compare the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of a structured settlement to other alternative or complementary investments. Need help with the chart? Call 4structures.com® LLC at 888-325-8640
  • Structured Settlement Payments | Types of Structured Settlements
    Ways You Can Structure Your Settlement Payments. With a structured settlement you can have more than one type of payment in a single contract. Different types of structured settlement payments can be customized and combined to meet your needs on a stand-alone basis, or in conjunction with other financial products. Diversify your structured settlement, if you wish, by funding with more than one annuity issuer, with treasury funded structured settlements or even an index linked structured settlement.
  • Structured Attorney Fees for Tax Deferral for Contingency Fees
    Structured attorney fees is a financial strategy that offers a unique way to defer taxes for lawyers and law firms. Lawyers CAN structure their legal fees even if the plaintiff doesn't structure their settlement. There are multiple ways to structure your attorney fees, such as the an index linked structured settlement where payments are adjusted based on upside changes in the S&P 500 with no downside and a cap of 5%. Trial Lawyers may also use a special deferred pay/deferred compensation arrangement, if market based returns returns are desired with no cap. Plan NOW for year end! Put structured attorney fee expert John Darer® on your settlement planning team.
  • Structured Settlement Annuity Company Customer Service Phone Numbers
    Receiving structured settlement payments from your own structured settlement or a structured settlement that you have inherited? You'll like this huge time saver. Click for a very useful list compiled by 4structures.com® LLC, that includes both current AND former structured settlement annuity issuers and reinsurers. If you have simple bank or beneficiary changes, or if the insurance company that issued the structured annuity has merged, sold or spun off its block of structured annuity business (e.g. Aviva, GE Capital, CNA) or changed its name and you're trying to track them down, here you go! The list is regularly updated. Last update 2019.
  • Structured Settlement Quote Lock-Ins | What You Need To Know
    What does a Structured Settlement Lock-In Mean? How do plaintiffs, defendants and insurers benefit from a structured settlement quote lock in when finalizing a settlement? How does the defendant/insurer/court benefit from using a structured settlement lock-in? Where to be careful when using structured settlement lock ins.
  • What Are Structured Settlement Annuities?
    Structured settlement annuities are customizable and can do much more than regular income annuities. Read about it here.

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  • STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS 4REAL® Blog IS A POPULAR SOURCE OF NEWS AND INFORMATION ABOUT STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS, Settlement Planning, Tax Deferral and Deferred Income Planning Solutions,
    with a stable readership that seeks credible structured settlement information and/or opinion about topical issues related to settlement planning, targeted to lawyers, injured persons and their family members, guardians, survivors, judges, magistrates, special masters, mediators, administrators, trust companies, insurance company executives and adjusters, financial advisers settlement professionals, financial professionals, insurance regulators, government leaders, federal and state law enforcement, buyers and sellers of structured settlement payment rights, the news media and other interested parties. 4structures.com LLC established the structured settlement blog in 2005 to fill a need for critical commentary in an under-served.marketplace. The John Darer® authored blog has been among the most prolific, providing fresh structured settlement, settlement planning and litigation recovery management content and commentary regularly. John Darer®, CLU ChFC MSSC CeFT® RSP CLTC, President of Stamford, CT based 4structures.com, LLC, is an experienced New York City area structured settlement expert, structured settlement broker, Certified Financial Transitionist, and Registered Settlement Planner. WHAT YOU GET here is the straight stuff with a touch of irreverence and humor. We hope you enjoy and find the content to be helpful.. Subscribe to the structured settlement blog feed, or a specific category feed through your blog reader, or through the Feedburner or Feedblitz links on this page. Followers of JDDarer™ on Twitter may also receive select content. Thank you for reading! Come back soon!

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  • In my opinion, John Darer is an excellent consumer advocate in the insurance industry. When I had no one else to turn to after running up against the stone walls of these giant insurance company, John Darer used hours of his own time to investigate my situation. Not only is this an invaluable service to me the consumer but it is also of great value to the insurance industry by providing them consumer feed-back. This allows the insurance companies to correct their faults and move toward greater transparency which improves the overall public image of the insurance industry as a whole" JW 9/4/2014
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  • Thank you so very much for discussing my concerns about Symetra, my annuity company. I am amazed that PI attorneys as well as a settlement broker in San Diego, could not answer the simplest questions I had regarding the Safeco/Symetra issue. Your blog/web site is most interesting and informative, and I am grateful you have take on the "watchdog" role! Thank you so much again (3/25/10)
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  • I heard a radio ad for the Peachtree Settlement Fund as I was driving into work this morning. (San Francisco Bay area.) I decided to check it out on the Internet and came upon your blog. Thank you very much. I do not have a “structured” settlement,
  • "All the others that I had emailed & have seen on the net were "cash now types" & have no concern of me & just are looking for my $$$. When I came across your site & blog I realized that u are an upstanding guy & are not like others. That's why I emailed"
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Structured Settlement Best Practices Corner

  • New York Insurance Advertising law requires the full name of the Insurer to be listed along with the city and state of the principal office. Stating that you represent these fine companies using Insurance company logos without the preceding information are also illegal
  • When it comes to settlement documents it is the ultimate responsibility of the lawyers or claims adjusters who receive input concerning the structured settlement aspects of the documents to actually read the entire document, exercise independent thought and advise their clients properly
  • Be aware that financial advisors use of testimonials is prohibited or restricted
  • Most states require that Testimonials represent the CURRENT opinion of the person who made the testimonial. Be prepared to back it up.
  • Number of States That Prohibit Payment of QSF expenses by licensed agents and brokers
    5 Survey not yet complete.

Structured Advertising That Just Ain't Right

  • Are Annuitants Getting High on Cash Now "Ecstasy"?
    Is "cash now" the new "esctasy" ? Sure seemed like it for a while with ubiquitous advertising that dangles "financial cat nip". The problem is that aside from a modest advance, unregulated "cash now pushers" simply cannot DELIVER "cash now" for structured settlements arguably making it fraudulent advertising. Click for a discussion.

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May 29, 2014

DRB Capital/Imperial "Customer" "Kristen" Is In Fact a Stock Photo

by Structured Settlement Watchdog™

It didn't take long for the structured settlement watchdog to follow his hunch that "satisfied customer" portrayed on both the Imperial Structured Settlements website and later the DRB Capital website is a stock photo, raising extreme doubt over the validity of splashy testimonials appearing on each company's public facing websites.

Having now discovered a photo of "Kristen", with her bright white smile and familiar fanned out wad of Benjamins, what does that tell you about the credibility of DRB Capital and the company it acquired?

We again ask DRB Capital again to verify publicly, with a copy of the transfer orders and supporting documents, that "Kristen" ,who it has advertised and held out publicly as a customer who has given a testimonial, is a real person who has done business with both DRB Capital and with Imperial Structured Settlements as the respective advertisements claim.

Read my May 20,2014 post  DRB Capital Makes "Imperial Blunder" With Advertising

It is appropriate that one of the goals of the National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP) is to "separate fact from fiction" [NASP website  5-29-2014].  Given that DRB Capital is a member of NASP, Imperial Structured Settlements  (which was acquired by DRB Capital) was a member of NASP, and that Dustin Nelson DRB Capital's operations manager,  is an officer- the Secretary of NASP, I think consumers deserve some answers.

 

 

 

 

Posted at 01:15 PM in DRB Capital Critical Commentary, DRB Capital/Imperial Structured Settlements | Critical Commentary, False Advertising Re Creating, Buying or Selling Structured Settlements, Misinformation about Structured Settlement Factoring, National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP), Structured Settlement False Advertising |

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