If you are looking for an alternative to CDs or bonds for your IRA or pension consider structured settlement payment rights. Some of the opportunities available this week: Pay approximately $149,360 for a $220,000 lump sum payout 2/11/2018 IRR 5.4%…
The comments to Jason Zweig’s Wall Street Journal Online article, “Another Can’t-Miss Deal That Can Miss Spectacularly” , offer an opportunity to address some areas of financial literacyA. One reader says (as an alternative to purchasing structured settlement payment rights)…
In recent years the structured settlement planning industry has seen an infusion of lawyers. What is noteworthy is that some are still practicing law, some use their legal credentials as a reason to do business with them and some are…
The image in the Wall Street Journal article “Another Can’t-Miss Deal That Can Miss Spectacularly “, shows a crouching vulture over a yield sign. Perhaps that’s the reason one can’t help cackling with the irony of author, Jason Zweig, citing…
The life insurance companies that issue structured settlement annuities really are a bunch of losers, compared to banks. But the “losers” should be proud to be on the end of a 100-0 pasting as the second half kicks off. Last…
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (”BAPCPA”) amended the bankruptcy code and continued the long standing bar against insurance company bankruptcies The Federal Bankruptcy Code expressly denies bankruptcy liquidation relief to insurance companies by providing that:…
What can the author of Side Effect of Penicillin on Cats and the Signs and Symptoms of EColi Food Poisoning offer you on the subject of structured settlements? Apparently not much. According to his bio Matt Olberding has been a…
An Investors Business Daily editorial posted on July 21, 2010 sounds the tsunami early warning system over the tax increases that appear on our collective horizon. This posts examines the first wave, and the impact it will have on plaintiffs,…
Does the submission of huge volume of rated age requests to life insurance companies, with little to no expectation of submitting business to those companies, all the while taking a big fee for acting as the middleman, constitute theft of…
The structured settlement watchdog hits the trenches in the war against blog rodents. Structured-Settlement-Info-Net is today’s specimen of Blogus Illiterati Rattus Rattus. The blog owned by some person from the Netherlands (Holland) who wishes to remain anonymous. That is just…