Someone using the Bing Search engine has a question concerning the taxation of personal injury settlements “I’m getting a settlement for a car accident what would the Capital Gains Tax in Ohio be?” Comments: The amounts you receive as compensation…
A month has now passed since the close of the SSP annual meeting and neither the Society of Settlement Planners, nor eccentric pedant “Hedwig Pindork” have acknowledged that the SSP has a factoring intermediary on its Board of Directors. Follow…
The end of the tenure of Smith Bucklin as the association management company for the National Structured Settlement Trade Association is nigh and it couldn’t come soon enough, in the opinion of this author. Smith Bucklin’s “reign” began in late…
What some structured settlement consultants and others refer to as a cost of living adjustment or COLA today is really a fixed escalator such as 2%, 3%, 4% or more. I’d like you to have a better understanding of it….
There are several types of transactions for individual investors (including tort victims): Acting as the direct counterparty to a structured settlement factoring transaction. You invest money in the right to receive periodic payments from someone else’s structured settlement directly or…
Despite the over the top scaremongering used by certain settlement planners to get business , a leading New York plaintiff lawyer suggests that structured settlements may be a “win win” that enables an otherwise impossible settlement” In Protecting the Catastrophically…
“Oh Wherefore art thou?” sayeth Romeo. Act 2 Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet you say? Hardly! Dripping in irony, instead of star crossed lovers we have a star crossed “blubber” The opening scene sees the plaintiff bleating in…
Which legitimate structured settlement industry websites are getting the most Internet traffic? Three Month Trailing Top 10 Global Traffic Rank (Alexa Rank as of 05/31/2010) of Structured Settlement and Settlement Planning Industry websites* (+ or- traffic from 05/03/2010 report). Lower…
In a financial radio show broadcast in late 2009 a Florida financial adviser, who claims to be the largest supplier of purchased structured annuities, said that demand for structured settlement payment rights by yield hungry individual investors is such that…
On September 18, 2008 Woodbridge Investments opportunistically and prematurely danced on the graves of “major insurance giants like AIG” in a Press Release which stated: “Recent financial troubles and bankruptcy scare for insurance giant AIG has created opportunity for structured…