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SPIA | Immediate Annuity "Annual Cash Flow" IS NOT Rate of Return!

2012-01-27T08:37:13-05:00

9.46% annual cash flow said the email blast. Clicking on the link, led to a website which featured the following advertisement for a single premium immediate annuity (also known as a "SPIA") The...

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"Selling Out": Your Structured Settlement Broker?

2012-01-25T11:33:31-05:00

Is it EVER acceptable for your structured settlement broker or settlement planner to sell, or offer to sell lists of names, contact information, specific payment information, of your client(s) or...

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Bill Tocchi (1957-2012)

2012-01-24T13:29:34-05:00

Yesterday I learned that my industry colleague Bill Tocchi, recently of Ringler Associates, lost his brave battle against Advanced Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) commonly called "Lou Gehrig's...

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9-11 Victim's Child Who Didn't Take Structured Settlement Is Bilked By Godmother

2012-01-23T20:37:14-05:00

Together with my friends at the law firms of Kreindler & Kreindler and Duane Morris in New York City, along with several industry colleagues and other law firms, we saw to it that many 9-11...

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California Insurance Commissioner Should Send Them To "Davy Jones* Locker" for Shameful Advertising

2012-01-23T01:37:24-05:00

Secondary Market Annuities LLC is a Nevada registered company that, in my opinion, should be the poster child for why there is an urgent need for regulation of the secondary market for structured...

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Plaintiffs Ability to Structure Lost As QSF Jockey "Saddles Up" Wrong in Mass Tort NOT Made Perfect

2012-01-21T17:48:36-05:00

Championing qualified settlement funds and overlooking how you "saddle up the horse" when you "get to the rodeo" could result in broken bones, just as it did for a plaintiff's structured settlement...

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United States Life in The City of New York: NY Structured Settlements Improvement

2012-01-17T20:33:53-05:00

Under a new corporate guarantee for New York structured settlements announced January 17, 2012, AGC Life Insurance Company will guarantee the obligations owed to structured settlement claimants under...

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J.G. Wentworth's "Rahman Noodles" Give Queens New York Judge "Indigestion"

2012-01-15T10:32:16-05:00

Queens New York Supreme Court Judge David Elliot had a bad reaction to the structured settlement transfer petition for Allia Rahman served up by the "chefs" at J.G. Wentworth. In addition to "sending...

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Structured Settlement Brokers: Don't Be A Twit With Your Twitter Profile

2012-01-14T23:13:00-05:00

Observations about the Social Media potholes that structured settlement brokers and others seem to get caught in. A. Friending Your Competitors It's the settlement industry's version of the "air...

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Will ELNY Investors Be " S.O.L" in ELNY Liquidation?

2012-01-13T21:43:25-05:00

We understand that investors who bought (or have been assigned ) structured settlement payment rights in the secondary market are not likely to receive statutory protections afforded structured...

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The Public NSSTA Response to the ELNY Liquidation-2

2012-01-13T21:10:05-05:00

No doubt some ELNY annuitants probably would prefer to be able to " do the limbo" rather than "being in limbo" The National Structured Settlements Trade Association has "soft-shoed" the introduction...

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"The Mighty Quinn"

2012-01-13T15:34:36-05:00

"Money invested in the annuity (principle) (sic) is not readily available for the clients (sic) use" - Doug-Quinn.com Produced January 2006 and still posted January 13, 2012 3:20pm EST...

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Structured Celebrity Endorsement Fees Can Help Athletes Avoid Financial Pain

2012-01-12T17:38:04-05:00

Former New York Yankees pitcher Denny Neagle filed a lawsuit Monday claiming that a Northbrook Illinois financial adviser who was “like a father” to him pilfered money while investing in risky...

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Advances to Structured Settlement Brokers on Structured Settlement Factoring Deals

2012-01-12T15:23:02-05:00

This author has learned that factoring companies and intermediaries are offering advances to structured settlement brokers who refer business to them. It is well settled that structured settlement...

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Secondary Market for Structured Settlement Payments: Labeling is Questioned

2012-01-11T20:03:31-05:00

Consumers may not understand that they get one set of protections when buying a fixed annuity or receiving an annuity funded structured settlement (which generally is a fixed annuity) a different set...

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Taxable Equivalent Yield and Qualified Structured Settlements

2012-01-10T12:12:50-05:00

Structured settlement payments received on account of physical injury, physical sickness, workers compensation, and/or wrongful death, are income tax free to extent the payments represent damages...

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Structured Settlement Annuity Issuers Among The Largest Life/Health Insurers

2012-01-08T22:31:41-05:00

Structured settlements are traditionally issued by the largest insurance companies in the United States, which are among the largest in the world. Here's how current and former structured settlement...

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Structured Settlement Assignments and Assignment Fees

2012-01-08T13:39:28-05:00

If a structured settlement is part of the resolution of a personal injury, medical malpractice, or wrongful death claim or lawsuit, then there will most likely be a qualified assignment. Since...

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The "Public" NSSTA Response to The ELNY Liquidation

2012-01-05T12:05:52-05:00

I've heard grumblings from a number of NSSTA members about the striking lack of publicized support that the NSSTA has given to ELNY structured settlement annuitants. Just about one week to go before...

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Settlement Planning: John Darer & Jack Meligan Have a Chat- Part 1

2012-01-04T14:28:01-05:00

Registered Settlement Planners John Darer and Jack Meligan who "book end" the United States from their respective offices in Stamford, CT and Portland OR have a chat in this video, exploring various...

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