A Qualified Assignment Release and Pledge Agreement is a legal document, the execution of which sets the 2nd stage of a structured settlement transaction in motion, in the context of personal injury or wrongful death settlements where there is a desire for the Payee to have secured party status. Continue reading

A structured settlement is not a judgment, but this fundamental fact seems to befuddle structured settlement factoring companies and/or their marketing teams..It's all rather silly. Continue reading

JG Wentworth "Babble-on". Metaphorically speaking, Money Maker Magazine's work about JG Wentworth is about as over the top as the opening scene of the movie "Babylon" which showcases the challenge of transporting the proverbial "elephant in the room" with "exposive results" Continue reading

Higher taxes make structured settlement tax advantages inherently more valuable. Paul Tudor Jones II, the billionaire hedge fund manager is quoted 'There's plenty of room to raise taxes': Jones says the US will need to change Social Security, cut federal health insurance to deal with a worsening debt crisis — are you ready? Continue reading

Higher taxes make structured settlement tax advantages inherently more valuable. Paul Tudor Jones II, the billionaire hedge fund manager is quoted 'There's plenty of room to raise taxes': Jones says the US will need to change Social Security, cut federal health insurance to deal with a worsening debt crisis — are you ready? Continue reading

Law'n Dragons for Plantiffs. I'd admit it's a bit hedgy. Onward say the Warriors of the Wayward Vowl as dropped vowels turn up in publication of Hofstra Law School in Hempstead New York, forms of the Beaver County Prothonotary and a big class action firms and in an IMdB Hollywood write up about The Trial. Continue reading

Did JG Wentworth's ad team run out of Viking hats and resort to the noggin' toppers of the Modern Stone Age "Order of the Water Buffalo"? When reached for comment, Fred and Barney exclaimed in unison "How Hanna and Barberassing!" Continue reading

JG Wentworth must be buying something if people have been scoring all that "cash now". What the heck is it? Think "Receivables Purchase Agreement" not " Buying an Annuity". Raising cash from your structured settlement means you are selling receivables or structured settlement payment rights. Continue reading

Brook Chase, a Syracuse University Lacrosse national champion and a structured settlement advisor in Syracuse and Tallahassee, friend and well-liked industry colleague has died at his home in Florida. He was 57 and a proud father of 4 Continue reading

Shawn Plummer's assertion is a fail because the plain reading of the Periodic Payment Settlement Act of 1982 says nothing of the sort. See Periodic Payment Settlement Act of 1982 | Birth of Qualified Assignments and Codified IRS Rulings. Continue reading

Structured attorney fees and other attorney fee deferral options are available to contingency fee lawyers. Structured attorney fee and attorney fee deferral options can be set up to pay to individual lawyers, to lawyers in a solo practice, to partners in a law firm, or the law firm entity. Continue reading

Not all structured settlement annuity issuers pay the same. How Does Structured Settlement Broker Get Paid? Who Pays It? Examples of periodic payment solutions that have different compensation options and/or fees than annuities Continue reading

The Know Your Client process recently came up in a filing in a Castro County Texas dispute that concerns the Reassignment of Factored Structured Settlement Receivables. Continue reading

According to A.M. Best a B++ rating represents companies that "are stable but have room for improvement. The long-term outlook may be unsure". Synonyms for unsure include lacking confidence, equivocating,..just the type of words that might cause an annuity prospect to question Continue reading

According to A.M. Best a B++ rating represents companies that "are stable but have room for improvement. The long-term outlook may be unsure". Synonyms for unsure include lacking confidence, equivocating,..just the type of words that might cause an annuity prospect to question Continue reading

IRC 72(u)(4)(C) provides for a series of substantially equal periodic payments (to be made not less frequently than annually). In the structured settlement space this applies where a domestic (US) non qualified assignment is funded with an annuity, where the annuity is owned by a non-natural person Continue reading

IRC 72(u)(4)(C) provides for a series of substantially equal periodic payments (to be made not less frequently than annually). In the structured settlement space this applies where a domestic (US) non qualified assignment is funded with an annuity, where the annuity is owned by a non-natural person Continue reading

Stuart Gentle, publisher at Onrec in the UK is creditedby Bing AI with a howler that purports to be about structured settlements. It appears to be a backlink SEO effort for Cesar Ornelas Law of El Paso Texas. A stadium full of English football fans could rightly chant "you don't know what you're doing" Continue reading

Immediate Annuities.com is not accurate about Structured Settlement Receivables in referring to assigned structured settlement payment rights as an annuity or annuities. A structured settlement factoring transaction does not involve any transfer of annuity policies.The "annuities listed" as secondary market annuities are not annuities. They are receivables. Continue reading

Gargan, former CEO of The Pension Company, Inc.,had the temerity to pilfer settlement money from taxpayer dollars to cover his own shortfalls. Gargan embezzled settlement funds from a NYC area hospital intended for a stuctured settlement for a severely injured minor. He also shortchange structured settlement brokers who were associated with his firm. Despite his crimes, Gargan was vouched for by Kenneth Feinberg and was the son of Joseph E. Gargan Continue reading

Structured settlements are negotiated and are the result of a compromise. Awards are not settlements A Grammy Award is not a settlement. An Academy Award (Oscar) is not a settlement. Iff the President pins the Medal of Honor on you it is not a settlement. If you make Dean's list it's not a settlement. Continue reading

Structured settlements are negotiated and are the result of a compromise. Awards are not settlements A Grammy Award is not a settlement. An Academy Award (Oscar) is not a settlement. Iff the President pins the Medal of Honor on you it is not a settlement. If you make Dean's list it's not a settlement. Continue reading

Under the cover of a company marketing video, the subject structured settlement broker targets "surviving spouses and 'dependants' ". At first blush it appears to be just a funny typo, but no... apprarently...it identified millions who collaborate to create intricate structires! Continue reading

Henry County GA appears to have a record that no other court can touch, as a specialist in hearing Plantiff cases, with its "Plantiff docket" dating back to 2019, according to our assidous research. On September 19, 2023, Henry County Judge Amanda Flora has 10 pages of plantiff cases on the calendar Continue reading

It is well settled that factored structured settlement payment rights are not annuities. Factored Structured Settlement Receivables are an unregulated non-insurance product sold by legitimate companies as ""Structured Settlement Annuities" and "Secondary Market Annuities". It's just reckless at this point. Continue reading