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Winter Storm 2019 | Don't Shiver Let Structured Settlements Deliver!

Customized steady tax free income. You can even plan to go South every winter with structured settlement payments to pay for it.

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Structured Settlement Industry Production Soars Above $6B | 2018 Was Highest...

By all accounts, 2018 was the best production year for the structured settlement industry primary market for a decade. Here are the highlights.

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Aviva/Athene Class Action Settlement | What Attorneys Should Know If Client...

Lead plaintiff John Griffiths and I got ahead of this,making the discovery in late 2014. The class action filed by Marcus & Auerbach in 2015 led to what can only be seen as a positive result for...

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What is A Structured Settlement Broker?

A structured settlement broker holds an active life insurance license in one or more states and carrier appointments, who provides professional advice and places structured settlement annuities and...

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Allstate in Talks to Sell Annuity Block Including Structured Settlements

Vigilance is important in these portfolio sales as Athene's purchase of Aviva USA amply demonstrates. In Allstate's case its Advance Funding Exchange Notice is an important liquidity feature....

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Secondary Market Annuity Investors Face Uncertainty And a Wait of a Year Or...

Secondary Market Annuities were not as advertised. They are not annuities. They are not structured settlement annuities and carry inherent transactional risks that vendors may have failed to disclose...

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Genex Capital Bizarre Explanation of Why Discount Rates For Cases Are So High...

"Sellers of structured settlements have been asking why are discount rates for their cases so high when the Federally set interest rate is so low" says Genex Capital. It's attempt to explain to answer...

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South FL Factoring Company Structured Settlement Proceeds Gone Weeks After...

Shortly after Liberty Settlement Solutions bought the structured settlement payments, Plaintiff was referred by an officer of Liberty, to an associate of hip hop producers Cool & Dre. The money was...

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"Worker's Bonk" Equals Worker's Comp as Adulterous Affair Leads to Fatal "On...

Under French law, any partners and children will receive a monthly benefit of up to 80 percent of his salary until what would have been his retirement age and then a share of his pension. C'est la vie!

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Class Action Filed in Missouri Against J.G. Wentworth Alleges Violations of...

According to the Complaint, the action seeks to redress JG Wentworth's unfair, deceptive and fraudulent conduct that has caused MO consumers to not receive advice of disinterested counsel when...

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Why Do Insurers and Hedge Funds Not Want Regulation of Structured Settlement...

40% of investors in factored structured settlement payments are hedge funds, 50% are life insurance companies and 10% individual investors. Would an audit shown rhedge funds and life insurers are...

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Does a Court Have to Set Up a Structured Settlement to Avoid Taxes?

Courts do not set up structured settlements. Therefore a Court does not have to set up a structured settlement to avoid taxes. In some cases, a Court must approve a settlement, regardless of whether it...

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Have Lessons Been Learned Or Are Structured Settlement Brokers Going Retro in...

Now, years after carriers that were participating in such practices abolished them, sources say that at least one NSSTA member brokerage firm is offering similar financial incentives to insurers and to...

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What is a Structured MSA?

Payments are made to the account from an annuity on a defined schedule to cover expenses projected for future years. Seed money is required to cover the first procedure or replacement and two years of...

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Structured Settlement Broker Bought Factored Structure With 10.76% Discount...

Ethical Considerations arising from the purchase of Structured Settlement Payments from former plaintiffs by settlement planners and structured settlement brokers. Is it ethical to buy from a seller...

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Structured Settlement Instead of a Health Savings Account?

It has been suggested that using a structured settlement annuity is an alternative to Health Savings Account. In my opinion such assertion cannot be applied categorically and each situation should be...

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US Court of Appeals Federal Circuit Rules that US Army Must Cover ELNY...

Payees have sued the USA over ELNY shortfalls and failed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Langkamp case focuses on the settlement agreement. The USA's commitment was...

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"Settlement Awards" and the "Arc of Life" | Misnomers Amid Fail to Address...

Life is not an arc as the structured settlement broker says. Transitions are an iterative process not a linear process. While life may throw you a couple of curve balls, life itself is neither linear...

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Mineola Couple Sued For Refusing to Return Structured Settlement Overpayment

Wilcac Structured Settlements, Inc., d/b/a CNA Structured Settlements, Inc. and Wilcac Life Insurance Company sued a Mineola NY couple, seeking recovery of $272,266.14 in overpaid life contingent...

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Structured Settlement Annuities Are NOT Tax Exempt

Structured settlement annuities are not tax exempt. Where used as a "qualified funding asset" the structured settlement payments may be tax exempt, but the essential reason for the tax exemption is the...

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