Heretick's "legislative privilege" gun is running out of bullets. Time is counting down for Portsmouth, Norfolk and Chesapeake delegate Steve Heretick who lost to 26 year old Nadarious Clark in Virginia's 79th District Democratic primary. Continue reading

A deep dive into just how settlement planners have marketed other people's structured settlement payments as investments, to trial lawyers, their injured clients, conservators, trustees and the Courts has revealed some pretty scary stuff that should give judges, fiduciaries and lawyers pause. Continue reading

A deep dive into just how settlement planners have marketed other people's structured settlement payments as investments, to trial lawyers, their injured clients, conservators, trustees and the Courts has revealed some pretty scary stuff that should give judges, fiduciaries and lawyers pause. Continue reading

Isn't JG Wentworth engaging in similar conduct to that which led to JG Wentworth filing a lawsuit against Peachtree and the alleged cause of its alleged irreparable harm? Continue reading

Annuity contracts are issued by insurance companies and sold to consumers by licensed insurance agents or brokers. Funding is a term used to describe the financial consideration paid to a structured settlement payee in exchange for the rights to certain structured settlement payments. Continue reading

Structured settlement cash now hustlers are like razor toothed bull sharks prowling waiting for the "just old enough" dinner bell to ring Continue reading

How Do Structured Settlement Purchasing Companies Work? Seems like a simple enough question, but not so straightforward for Annuity.org who again flatter to deceive. Continue reading

The Trojan Horse translated "Don't Just Dream About Selling Your Structured Settlement For Pennies on the Dollar to remodel your home". Wow , just wow. Continue reading

by Structured Settlement Watchdog UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh has compiled information on phony anti-libel takedown injuctions in an aptly named Shenanigans (Internet Takedown Edition), which will published in the forthcoming Utah Law Review, 2020. Professor Volokh's informative 55 page treatise can be... Continue reading

Richart Ruddie of JRR Funding and Profile Defenders (NuProfile) was sued in August 2012 by Las Vegas sports betting giant Bill Walters in litigation against companies and individuals that Walters said put up phony websites to trick gamblers into thinking they were buying betting tips from him. Continue reading

CBC Settlement Funding shill Annuity.Org published bogus information about structured settlements that was purportedly fact checked and financially by a PhD only last month. Here are 5 ways that the Annuity.org and its "fact checkers" got it horribly wrong Continue reading

The Court quashed an appeal of denied motions to dissolve an injunction involving a 1/31/2020 order requiring all (structured settlement) annuity payments to Zachary Barber provided for in its 2005 Settlement Order be paid into court until allegation of statutory violations, forum shopping and fraud presented in the underlying proceeding had been determined. Continue reading

The "greatest gift" by the structured settlement consulting firm is to demonstrate an unfortunate lack of familiarity with the roles of Congress, the power granted to Congress to levy taxes by the United States Constitution and the role of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Oy yoy yoy.l Continue reading

But can these pennies on the dollar merchants truly be considered structured settlement brokers? The pennies on the dollar has to do with the purchase of factored structured settlement payment rights, not structured settlements or structured settlement annuities. Continue reading

Did a search engine optimization firm for a Florida structured settlement factoring company prey on a criminal defense law firm? Or is a criminal defense firm shilling for the Florida structured settlement factoring company? Continue reading

Judge Charles Maxfield, who is from Fairfax Virginia and brought in after a pair of recusals in the Portsmouth Circuit, expressed concerns about being able to complete the 384 mile round trip under the circumstances. So the Terrence Taylor saga continues. Continue reading

In a shocking discovery, twice bankrupt JG Wentworth and its sister company Peachtree Financial are now apparently each identifying as a " Settlement Consultant" as this screenshot shows. It is not clear how long the Chesterbrook PA companies' secondary market "dysphoria" has been building. Continue reading

Wouldn't it be less confusing and more accurate if they answered the phone "Annuity Payment Freedom for Pennies on the Dollar"? Isn't that the reality of the end product? Liquidity at a big cost. Freedom tastes of reality, eh? Continue reading

What is considered evidence of noncompliance with US Nexus on .us domain name registrations: Continue reading

Court scraping is the process of searching court records for personal identifiable information about individuals, with whom the scraper has no direct relationship, whose settlements involve structured settlements. Continue reading

It's bad enough that certain stand alone structured settlement factoring companies and their shills "misgender" settlements as awards, but a settlement purchaser associated with a settlement planning firm is joining in the "poopsmithery". Continue reading

The Annuity.org ruse has been up for a long time. Saying something is fact checked and displaying the fact checker and his/her credentials isn't believable as documented critiques provided. When it comes to structured settlements, theirs is a brand that generates leads for a factoring company or companies that pay pennies on the dollar. Continue reading

Volokh's informative treatise features, among other things, the shenanigans of "reputation manager" and AnnuitySold fraud Richart Ruddie, mentioned 14 times, in conjunction with a multi state de-indexing scam tied to Ruddie's "reputation management" company, that was uncovered in 2016 Continue reading

The Proposed Nevada Act would also give a court the power to (1) Revoke the registration of the settlement purchasing company; (2) Suspend the registration; or (3) Enjoin the structured settlement purchasing company from filing new structured settlement transfer proceedings in Nevada, if the there is a determination that the structured settlement purchasing company is in violation of the Act Continue reading

The reason that We Pay More Funding is misleading consumers with the statement is that they will never ever EVER give you a "full settlement payout".. When your business model involves paying pennies on the dollar, their statement makes no sense and could never be true. Continue reading